Word: sane
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...view of society-possibly explains the razor man's moustache. What he proposes is, in effect, a socialistic world-state, the abolition of private capital. His means of attaining it and his reasons for seeking it are unique. He begins in the approved socialistic manner: "No sane man can live on this planet 20 years without realizing that something is very seriously wrong with the world." But he does not proceed with the usual tirade against the capitalist who "squeezes the last drop of profit" from the laboring classes. He enumerates the economic hardships of the race and then...
Heywood Broun: "... Before the play ends she is stark raving mad. So instead of the problem of white and black, we have the problem of sane and insane ... In the uneven career of Eugene O'Neill I think All God's Chillun will rank as one of the down strokes...
...reaching more than half the physicians in the U. S. Dr. Simmons is also credited with inaugurating the attack on fraudulent patent medicines and nostrums, with stimulating the advance in medical education, with first providing the facts that led to the "safe and sane July 4" campaign, and with decreasing the number of typhoid deaths in American cities...
...traditional Man from Mars dropped last week into Philadelphia and then bounced over to Boston, and subsequently returned to Mars, there would have been one question to which he could have made no sane answer to inquisitive friends and relatives: " What is the Protestant Episcopal Church in the U.S.?" In Philadelphia, passing through Locust Street, he would have seen a pageant of dressed-up priests-a crucifix, bearing a shining cross of gold, torchbearers in red cassocks and cottas, priests in serried ranks followed by monks of the Order of the Holy Cross and the Cowley Fathers. To Mass- High...
...would be wholly desirable. The criminal, even though he is to be regarded as an invalid, must be brought to realize that although society pities him, it also disapproves. What can be done is to eliminate the spirit of vindictiveness that has existed, and to substitute for it one sane, helpful cooperation, with every influence working for a beneficial result...