Word: intellective
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...intellect, be it sufficiently subtle, may be able to explain logically how spirits are substantial enough to reflect light, and why the timid creatures, shrinking to invisibility before human gaze, pose so graciously for the photographer. But who will explain the face of Battling Siki among the ethereal throng? Perhaps, the spirits were merely indulging in a low order of practical joke. Such humor, however, is scarcely worthy of men who have attained a more or less fixed station in life, or out of it: and any such explanation must be regarded as a feeble excuse for the somewhat chagrined...
...whole theory of representative government justifies such a choice. Furthermore, Catholics have been known who possessed great abilities. Governor Smith of New York is no worse governor for being a Catholic, nor is G. K. Chesterton a worse writer because of his religion. No religion contains all the intellect of the world many its members...
...this circle, Mr. and Mrs. Lodge were intimates. John Hay had built his house next door; but most of the gatherings (breakfasts) were at 1603-feasts of spirit and intellect in a world where politics constituted but one interest among a score. "Nowhere in the U. S.," says Hay's biographer, "was there then, or has there since been, such a salon." Being in Washington, it was a salon culturally and temperamentally more cosmopolitan than it could have been in contemporary Boston, less worldly, less bizarre than it might have been in contemporary Manhattan...
...Also it is said of him that while his heart entitles him to the respect and even the affection of mankind, the quality of his intellect is such as constantly to flabbergast his best friends...
Hogg. CHARACTER: "I think it would be true to say that his intellect has a punch in it, but not his personality. It is the fist of Carpentier, but the soul of Joe Beckett. One feels that if his intellectual equipment had been at the disposal of any ambitious politician it could not have failed to make its mark, and perhaps a permanent mark, on contemporary politics. . . . He suggests in his appearance that he would like fighting and dislike dirt. There is something military in his carriage and something pugilistic in his precise and vigorous face. He is also...