Word: thinker
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...were no party ties to prevent him from concurring in the scalding Supreme opinion thereon. Now the "Best Minds" are no longer referred to as such, but Mr. Chief Justice hears that his onetime party's Nominee "probably has the largest mind in America" and is a "planetary thinker." No opinion is required of the High Bench on these matters. When he hears of Hooverism and the Brown Derby, Mr. Chief Justice can smile, chuckle. He can point to his "dent" and lend his now almost universally admired bumps to the law, which follows sedately, a decade or more...
...everyone knows, Luther at one time occupied the chair of philosophy of the University of Wittenberg; he was a master and a doctor; he was a writer and thinker of great political and religious consequence...
...natural associations of the catch phrase thinker with the word "melodrama" are the mustachio and hound dogs, the Tennesseean Montagues and Capulets, and the revolving saw that yearns for the hero's throat. But along Catfish Row, in the negro tenement district of Charleston, murder, knife behind back, walks hand in hand with music. The very name of melodrama was derived of this union. Modern usage of the word had its birth in the musically accompanied plays of the mauve decade, when "Hearts and Flowers," various funeral marches, and "After the Ball" were softly breathed by violins below the stage...
...paid for by the wealth of Mr. Mastbaum, to house works of null Auguste Rodin (1840-1917). In it will be assembled the finest U. S. collection of his works. Outside and in front of it will be gardens and a statue, not of Mr. Mastbaum, but of The Thinker, Sculptor Rodin's most famed work...
...Herald. Sounding the death knell of the clergyman and predicting the early disappearance of what he calls the "Sunday School kind of religion. Mr. Croy is the herald of a replacing social philosophy. This theory is especially interesting when he declares that Sinclair Lewis is not the only thinker to share it: rather, almost all the young American intelligentsia, even including members of the clergy like a John Haynes Holmes and Wakefield Sinten, are his comrades...