Word: sane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sane American can approve or tolerate Communism, the diabolical philosophy of our time. But just because an ex-Communist bares his so-called soul in public is no excuse for a critic to start jumping hoops in applauding him. If your assessment of Chambers' book is correct, then Tolstoy was a pulp writer...
...plug hat, who believed in "small doses of mild drugs, a heavy meal three times a day, a good cigar after each one, a little whisky to regulate the heart, a cheerful disposition to relax the system, a healthy skepticism to clear the mind of notions, and a sane moderation in exercise and bathing, either of which could kill a man if he didn't watch out." Doc Beall's most common prescription was lamp oil taken internally. He took it himself and lived almost 90 years. Mary, his sister, smoked chewing tobacco in a clay pipe...
...Birth of a Nation" has happily been buried by Boston's censor. It's the first decent or sane thing he has ever done. At least give him credit for doing the right thing, if for the wrong reason. You can always see "My Son John.".... Franklin T. Laskin, Yale Law School...
...Capote recalled a touching secondhand memory of Greta Garbo: "I stopped by the apartment of a friend who previously that afternoon had entertained Garbo at tea. As I entered the room and started to sit down in an especially comfortable-looking chair piled with pillows, my friend, a very sane fellow, suddenly asked would I mind not using that particular chair. 'You see,' he said solemnly, 'she sat there: the dent in the little red pillow, that's where her hand rested-I should like to keep it a while longer.' I understood him perfectly...
...they ever hear about them. Remembers Cabell: "In practice, among the upper circles of the state of Virginia ... a fair number of accessible young gentlewomen whose social standing stayed unquestioned, whether as wives or as spinsters, were no whit averse to extreme amorous dalliance if only you took sane precautions...