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Word: sanely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only one of the Pembertons, Toni (Ann Sothern), was half sane. She helped poor Henry MacMorrow (Jack . Haley), the lawyer who was trying to get her family's signatures to documents enabling him to sell a piece of land they owned. Uncle Goliath (Maurice Cass) was the hardest one to persuade. To prove that civilization was a failure, he was living, dressed in bearskins, in a cave adjacent to his 40-room house. By the time Goliath signed the power of attorney on a piece of hide, Toni and Henry were in love. Toni knew that her family would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 15, 1937 | 11/15/1937 | See Source »

Have you anyone that can give a sane reason as to why this man gets so much publicity and such a build-up for his very mediocre stories? I read your article about him and immediately read his new book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 8, 1937 | 11/8/1937 | See Source »

...Berlin, an elderly, indomitable English lady planted herself one morning last week in front of the Duke's hotel, sane at the top of her voice clear through the song For He's a Jolly Good Fellow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Windsors in Naziland | 10/25/1937 | See Source »

...rest of their lives because their parents heeded their pleas to 'play with fireworks' is a sobering one indeed. I cannot urge too strongly that every possible precaution be taken to make the figures for 1937 prove that at last we have had a safe and sane Fourth of July." Preliminary reports of the July 4th holiday weekend showed 437 deaths in 46 States: 104 drownings, 247 traffic deaths, 86 others including six from fireworks. New Jersey's authorities hoped to provide a salutary example to other States by threatening to jail (90 days) and fine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Accident Record | 7/12/1937 | See Source »

During his last year Author Brown gave up pacing 20 miles a day, was much in demand as a speaker at business men's luncheons. A free man again, he found the sane world much nicer but also stranger than a mental hospital. What best evokes for him his asylum days is the worried expression of the people on the streets of New York City, their mutterings to themselves. After four years the only asylum habit that clings to him is counting passengers as they get on and off elevators, to make sure none of them has slipped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lost & Found | 6/14/1937 | See Source »

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