Word: sanely
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...President with World's Work noted as sponsor, and with surrounding spaces left blank for endorsers' names. Excerpts: ". . . our financial and industrial foundations stand broader and firmer today than at any other time in our history. We believe the American people owe this achievement to ... your sane and progressive leadership. . . . We . . . express our deep gratitude for what you have accomplished during the past year and . . . assure you that you will have in the continuation of your policies . . . the unqualified support of all Americans who, regardless of party or of special interest, have the nation's prosperity...
...Luxembourg in Paris. He decorated ballrooms, bedrooms, swimming pools for many a tycoon. Of his three brothers, William Astor was an African explorer, had his leg amputated because it bothered him; John Armstrong (Chaloner) made a spectacular escape from Bloommingdale Asylum, changed his name, lives now in Virginia, legally sane; a third, Lewis Stuyvesant became Lieutenant Governor ot New York. Giant, genial Brother Bob got elected sheriff by servicing farmers cows with a prize bull. He used to hunt for robbers at night disguised as a cowboy. He was married twice (once, briefly, to famed Diva Lina Cavalieri...
...supply Dunster House with milk and at least 100 hens to keep the house dining room with eggs. 5,460 square inches of bread, 960 pieces of butter, 45 dozen hot rolls and great quantities of griddle cakes are consumed every day according to information given out by Edgar Sane, Dunster House steward...
...This sane point of view may seem beyond need of comment, but there are hundreds of American college alumni now living who heard nothing like it during their undergraduate days. Twenty years ago at almost any Eastern college the head coach exhorted the incoming freshman somewhat as follows: "Now remember, it isn't enough to attend every game. No matter whether or not you can play any football, you fellows--all of you--be down at the field each afternoon to watch the practice. Show that team you're behind it every minute of the season!" And when the coach...
After three or four years there was such an interest created that, as each season came round, an increasing number of newspapers and periodicals were sending for the reports. It was this propaganda following the publication of the reports, that caused the formation of Sane Fourth organizations, which did so much in getting cities and towns to pass laws or ordinances doing away with fire works . . . GEORGE H. SIMMONS...