Word: intelligensia
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According to Mr. Walter T. Spence, one of the best known of London dealers in rare books and whose "Forty Years in My Bookshop" was recently published by Houghton Mifflin Company, the forgery of autobiography is not so common a pursuit for the indigent and unscrupulous intelligensia as it was forty years ago. In those days such incidents as the following were not uncommon. "A workingman came into my shop with a book under his arm:--Hone's Everyday Book, 1839, with a good many MS. marginal notes signed or initialled "Charles Lamb." He said...
Every field of human activity has its peculiar innovation in this age of radical reform. The Fabians and their kin are busy penning their scholarly dissertations; and more humble intelligensia, essays for handbill and pamphlet. The artist folk, in timely appeal to the aesthetic boobery, sanctions and cherishes Armfield's "synthetic drama" and the futurist antics of Marinetti. The reader of the newspapers learns with astonishment that the aeroplane has been successfully adopted by criminals for purpose of escape, and that Trotzky is producing a series of communistic plays which he is forcing the hapless Russians to attend...