Word: intellect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...induced Robert La Follette to drop his notion of becoming a Shakespearean actor, turned his career definitely to Law & Politics. They were married in 1881. She became a politician's ideal wife. Into her husband's campaigns she threw herself with all the force of her able intellect. She kept up his faith in himself and his cause through defeat and discouragement. She was, she boasted, more radical than he. As they aged, they even came to look alike. As his silent partner she exercised great influence over Wisconsin politics and he affectionately referred...
...regard as a poet at all. Typical modern U.S. poetry does not sell for a good reason: misnamed "lyric," it is actually introspective, exhibitionist, an effort on the poet's part to escape from intellectual nightmare. Witter Bynner's poetic cosmos is top-heavy with intellect but more objective than most; he does not get hysterical about it. His poems are not great but they are masculine. At 34 he summed up, in The New World, what he thought about Life; at 50 he has written the sequel. Eden Tree...
Seeking Divorce. Ina Claire, 38, cinema and stage actress (The Royal Family of Broadway, Rebound); from Cinemactor John Gilbert, 33. Charge: mental cruelty. One of his alleged cruelties: calling her "a woman of too much intellect...
...Vagabond has never followed after the things of the body. He has confined himself chiefly to the less corporeal activities of the mind and intellect. Of late days, however, what with the warm weather and the fag end of the year, he has found the intellect altogether wanting. He decided that it was high time he learned something about the physical set up of mankind...
...more effectively by concentrating on that one thing. It means sacrificing nine tenths of what constitutes college life at present, including things which may be as valuable as purely mental growth, but it is the best way to produce that rara avis, a really strong intellect, ready to "spin the gossamers as well as forge the anchors of the mind...