Word: sane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ford Message: "The Eighteenth Amendment is recognized by the men and women of our country, especially the women, as the greatest force for the comfort and prosperity of the U.S. I feel sure that sane people of this nation will never see it repealed or any dangerous modification...
...that time it had become merely a new racket for the pants-makers, and millions of minds were being trivialized and anaesthetized by that endless flicker of falseness and venality. How much of my work was actually applied to the service of a sane humanity? How much of it was cheapened and perverted by the greed of men, the mechanical greed of money to make more money? My work was honest work. I never cared for money?never thought about it. You imply that my work helped to fill that vulgar adolescent heaven of yours. I deny...
...quite popular Christian hymns." Author Lawrence thinks the present attitude to pornography is pornographical, blames much of it on "the last century, the eunuch century, the century of the mealy-mouthed lie, the century that has tried to destroy humanity, the nineteenth century." Says Lawrence, if men had a sane feeling about sex, two things would disappear; the love lyric, the smoking-room story. "You can't do it by being wise and scientific about it, like Dr. Marie Slopes: though to be wise and scientific like Dr. Marie Stopes is better than to be utterly hypocritical...
...excellent starting point for arguments by both wets and drys. it is expecting too much, however, to hope that it will satisfy any large body of people. In the lack of cohesion to a definite plan lies the weakness of those who are trying to promote a sane substitute for the present prohibition legislation...
...little fellow just out of Annapolis, with a pathetic courage and a dormitory sense of duty, who faces death by recalling the heroic memory of John Paul Jones. Cobb likes girls and Costello likes liquor and the radio operator is a sarcastic fellow. In the effort to keep sane under terrible pressure some minds infect themselves deliberately with tiny manias. One sailor hangs onto a Chinese vase-he wants to save that-and another whittles a boat out of a chip of wood to play with in the water that will drown him. On the plunging surface of the water...