Word: objectively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shocking if it be recalled that science no longer conceives of two classes of persons: the "sane" and the "insane." The "sane" are simply that large, vague mass of humanity which neither rises sufficiently above the normal to attain "genius" or sinks sufficiently below it to become the object of restraint. The action of so-called "mental diseases" may either benefit or harm humanity, may bring the "diseased" power and wealth or lead to the madhouse...
Since the U. S. is without an official national anthem, the National Society of United States Daughters of 1812 is now disseminating propaganda with the object of persuading Congress to authorize a national anthem at its next session...
...Charles Holz, 40, Philadelphia waiter, markedly resembles President Coolidge. Last week Mr. Holz was asked by a Manhattan cinema concern to "double" for the President in film scenes laid in and around Rutland and Plymouth, Vt., Said Mr. Holz: "I will accept, if Mr. Coolidge does not object...
...believed that the universal "Yankee nation" to which he dedicates his book, was entitled to amusement, and that he had been sent almost as a prophet to supply that need. He further believed that the public would go to any lengths to obtain amusement and did not object to an occasional hoax, so long as it was all in the spirit of good clean fun. Good clean fun there is in plenty among the pages of this long showing off of a showman, and fun that is enjoyable to a reader if not taken in too large doses...
...merely a land we do not live in, and has created appropriate characters, which are a relief after picayune sensationists such as James Joyce, Sherwood Anderson, and others, who think themselves realists for showing us the disagreeable things about disagreeable people in disjointed sentences. And no one would object to Venetia Vardon having loved twice except the Boston censors, who have banned the book. I am afraid that Swift, Fielding, Defoe and many of our other great English novelists would have made a scant living in this state...