Word: sane
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wisconsin, meanwhile, were being enacted scenes far less sane, less normally boyish than the spectacle of 700 exuberant students cheering on a winter day under the window of their overseer. Rapine, carnival, all-night carousals, drinking-brawls, Babylonian revels?these said the press, have been going forward at the University of Wisconsin. Sorely, sorely, if the press is to be credenced, does the University of Wisconsin need an administrator. Judge Ole Stolen, magistrate of Madison, Wis., where the University is situate, stated last week that many students were of such licentious habits that frequently, at cockcrow, persons believed...
...means not one jot or tittle of what his eyes might say to that man when they meet. This was the first time I had shaken hands with Mr. Sherman, sage from the Middle West, now editor of Books. His philosophies I bow to. His essays seem to me sane and brilliant, while Mr. Menckan seems often to harp on the same rather frayed and always twanging string. Shy, slightly satirical in conversation, remote and difficult to know, Mr. Sherman possesses undoubted charm-but it is the charm of a wielder of intellectual hammerblows, the sly bearer of devastating epigrams...
...Carrie Chapman Catt, Chairman of the Conference, suggested that a new Cabinet post, "Secretary of Peace," be created. She declared that the Army and Navy must "continue to be honored and respected until a safe and sane substitute is found." Race and religious prejudices must be abandoned, she asserted, and concluded : "The white race must disgorge. The lands we stole from the yellow and black races at the point of the sword must be returned ere there can ever be peace on the earth...
Nothing could have been more simple, more dignified and more sane than certain speeches that Mrs. Philip Snowden, wife of the onetime Chancellor of the Exchequer, made a fortnight ago in Montreal. She told crowded houses all about the Labor movement in Britain. She explained the uphill fight of the pre-Labor Government period, the inner frictions of the Labor Cabinet and what is now being done...
...educated man is a man with certain subtle spiritual qualities which make him calm in adversity, happy when alone, just in his dealings, rational and sane in the fullest meaning of that word in all the affairs of his life...