Word: sane
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...They were sane and dull people, these Washingtons, and excessively normal. Men of this type, in all ages of history, have presented an opaque surface to the fresh thought of their time. They are conservative by instinct. But their vitality .is tough and deeply rooted, and their stolidity is antiseptic. They are immune to the fructifying quality of genius...
...orchestra? In mid-season form, well-disciplined, beautiful strings, hesitant brasses. Conductor Stock? An excellent leader, sure, scholarly, sane. Too sane, some said, called him dry, bloodless...
...Dartmouth expressed in a recent editorial their attitude toward the game. It is that of a group of sane undergraduates who, all new paper talk to the contrary, like football at its best. The game between Dartmouth and Harvard has been for some time an example of what college football can be. So it is with perfect good will toward all that the Crimson takes the day off from higher seriousness and with joe de vivre written upon the family shield gees down to the stadium to help welcome that institution of which Daniel Webster once said...
...ward politics, and the leading in dies in musical comedies. Nor is this to be wondered at. There is no reason why such trivial handicaps should force this continued residence among American tourists. Arrived here; Queen Marie, like many others, will meet that little bruited creature, the quiet, sane American--and she may effect a union of aristocracy Roumanian with plutocracy American to the amusement, not to say betterment of both nations. Even queens should be useful--except at Atlantic city--and Marie of Roumanian is very beautiful...
...heart, middle class, bread and butter people as ineffective as they are powerful; the faculty is a poorly paid group, subservient to their extra-academic employers; the under-graduates, a now often revolutionary group, merely because of the absence of complete intellectual freedom. Nor are his reasons other than sane and convincing...