Word: sane
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hard to escape the electric chair. His lawyers saved him by proving him insane and the Thaw fortune was said to have been diminished by a good round million dollars. In Philadelphia, during the past week, Harry Thaw began a new and expensive fight-a fight to be proven sane and so regain liberty...
...Eaton has had many intimate talks with the political leaders in Russia and in the Baltic states and has in this way reached very sane conclusions as to the character of the Bolsheviks. One of the most dramatic incidents was his appearance before "Simanova, the Merciless", the most dreaded woman in all Russia and chief of the foreign division of the Cheka, the secret society whose acts of terrorism have horrified the world. "You must always lie in the Cheka", said Mr. Eaton, "for if you tell the truth they will take...
...several motions that were carried two stand out preeminently important--that providing for the reorganization of the Council itself, and that approving the report of the committee investigating managership systems. The first, more laudable because as unselfish as a self-denying ordinance, is eminently sane, reasonable and far-sighted. By the system that will go into effect this spring the Council will be so constituted as to be active, representative, and effective. The members of the reorganized body will be more in touch with the student body, more in touch with each other, more interested in considering and more capable...
...Garner's? Shall we have a bonus?" The sanity of the proceeding depends entirely on how much surplus revenue there is to play with. And the amount of surplus revenue depends on an estimate. Mr. Mellon of the Treasury Department offered the estimate. According to his estimate, Congress may sanely ask: "Shall we have one?or rather, shall we have the Mellon bill?" To speak of the Garner bill, or of the Longworth compromise (which was passed by the House) or of a soldier bonus would not be sense?pocketbook sense. But the opponents of the regular Republicans?Democrats...
...Haven, Conn., March 30--"Dean Briggs represents more than anyone else the present high spirit of sportsmanship in intercollegiate athletics. His sane judgements, unerring fairness, and broad charity have through many years formed a sound basis of friendship between Harvard, Yale, and Princeton. His character and personality alone have been ample insurance against serious misunderstanding, and no other man has in equal degree the personal love and respect of the members of all three Universities. I cannot overstate the regret and sense of loss which his retirement will cause here at Yale...