Word: sane
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...news listed above are quoted from the headlines of a yesterday's issue of one of the outstanding newspapers in the country. The same paper, it is true, carried full accounts of the Indian riots, senatorial goings-on, and other more legitimate news. The events which by all sane standards may be said to hold any vital importance for America or the world apparently have to be spiced with innumerable inconsequential and often silly stories. A public once satisfied by "news" from Winstead, Conn., about five-legged calves, trained brook trout, talking chickens, and green horses, must now have...
...back to painting. Followed a second marriage to the tempestuous primadonna Lina Cavalieri. Another brother, John Armstrong Chanler, had attracted no little attention by running amuck, shooting his butler, and effecting a spectacular escape from the Bloomingdale Hospital for the Insane (Manhattan). He fled to Virginia, was judged legally sane, changed his name to "Chaloner" and set a brass plate in his dining room floor "To the Memory of a Faithful Servitor." No sooner did the news of Artist Bob's marriage to the spectacular Cavalieri reach Virginia than Brother John sent his most famous telegram: WHO'S LOONY...
...unassimilated fact. Unfortunately this test has gone to the other extreme and fallen into the Charybdis of asking for too much in a limited time, thus emasculating whatever virtue it might have otherwise had. With this glaring defect as a drawback it is still impossible to form a sane opinion of student ability...
...Ford Message: "The Eighteenth Amendment is recognized by the men and women of our country, especially the women, as the greatest force for the comfort and prosperity of the U.S. I feel sure that sane people of this nation will never see it repealed or any dangerous modification...
...that time it had become merely a new racket for the pants-makers, and millions of minds were being trivialized and anaesthetized by that endless flicker of falseness and venality. How much of my work was actually applied to the service of a sane humanity? How much of it was cheapened and perverted by the greed of men, the mechanical greed of money to make more money? My work was honest work. I never cared for money?never thought about it. You imply that my work helped to fill that vulgar adolescent heaven of yours. I deny...