Word: sane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Moderately sane people don't go to the movies to learn anything, least of all in history. Therefore, if a show is good entertainment, it is little short of pedantry to inquire into its authenticity. "The Gorgeous Hussy" may be the acme of historical precision, or it may be almost pure fiction. The latter possibility is, of course, the more likely. But 90% of the audience, including the Crimson Moviegoer, don't care, and 99%, again including said reviewer, don't know...
Quoting from Mr. Agassiz: "What the world most needs today is the wisdom to apply its knowledge wisely; in the sane realization and full acceptance of the fact that Nature is 'a Divinity that shapes our ends, rough hew them...
...emblazoned the words, "Weakness a Crime: Don't Be a Criminal!" . . . In this humble beginning, the world first met the editorial technique of Macfadden. . . . Few people think of Macfadden as the great editor. The world knows Macfadden, the crusader, because of his fights against weakness, against prudery, for sane foods, for sane living. Macfadden today inspires more people than any other magazine editor. His followers are millions. . . . By its own right each Macfadden Magazine is a constructive force with worth-while people-because it mirrors life as it is lived today...
Since his nomination for the Presidency in June Alf Landon had appeared just once in the national eye. That was on the hot July evening he made his safe & sane acceptance speech in Topeka. Since then his prolonged absence from the headlines had prompted the pressagents of the Democratic National Committee to chide the pressagents of the Republican National Committee with having failed to mention the GOPresidential nominee for a whole week. Undisturbed by this critical clamor over his whereabouts, Governor Landon stayed on at Estes Park, nursed a cold that left him a painful trace of pleurisy...
...crowd was treated to another spectacle: Onetime Senator David Reed and onetime Governor Gifford Pinchot, Republican arch-enemies in Pennsylvania, marched out on the speaker's platform, shook hands and were photographed together. Harvey Taylor, Pennsylvania's Republican Chairman, introduced the speaker as a man "sane, sound, sensible and sincere." Alf Landon stepped forward to explain his ideals to his home folks...