Word: sane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Deal unfolded. Yet even these erstwhile friends had to admit that Al Smith retained his salty gift of phrase when he concluded his attack thus: "Some of my readers. may ask why others have not pointed out these dangers in the CWA program. The answer is very simple. No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas...
...think in a short time, after people have accustomed themselves again to drinking, it will be carried on in a sane manner just as it used to be in the old days when one drank for enjoyment. Because their sense of taste has been so dulled by the horrible bootleg liquor, it will take some time for them to be able to appreciate good liquor, such as three star Henesee cognac...
...tremendous money-making proposition, no matter how much will be distributed to charities. Further, the men who fell all over themselves before this hullaballoo have betrayed the trust placed in them if we realize that Columbia University has been a leader in placing intercollegiate football on a sane and decent level...
...This is primarily traceable to a habit of living which treats drink, not as an independent and serious enterprise, but as a minor adjunct to the pleasures of the table. Hard liquor has not become popular for a very obvious reason; beer and wine are just as natural, and sane, and agreeable with a dinner as a strong drink such as whiskey is the reverse of all of these things...
...permanently demoralizing the dominion of indifference, it is disappointing that Harvard should succumb under pressure to the revival of a custom it had wisely disposed of. The attitude of undergraduates ion the last few years towards football cannot scathingly be termed indifferent; it has simply been a sane attitude which marked Harvard as being years ahead of other colleges in this respect...