Word: saneness
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Partridge was sent to the State Hospital for the Insane at Lima. Doctors there released him, finding him sane, although possessed of "some unusual and strong ideas." He returned to Hillsboro to resume his duties as county engineer. The county commissioners tried to fire him, but strong-minded Partridge contended that he had job tenure, that his setting fire to the school was an after-hours act performed as a private person and did not affect his professional competence as a county engineer...
...Matteawan State Hospital for the Criminal Insane. There she worked in the laundry, and made a resolute effort to cure herself. A truant who never finished school, Lena studied and read avidly at Matteawan. In nine years her I.Q. rose from 66 to 127. This year she was found sane, but still faced trial. "Her entire personality is changed," said Matteawan's Director John F. McNeill, "as is her outlook on life...
...secretary of state, limited his plea for votes to the boast that he was "the best damn cowboy singer in the world." In Sequoyah County, E. W. Floyd, a brother of the late Charles (Pretty Boy) Floyd, won the Democratic nomination for county sheriff. And Homer Cox, just declared sane after his mother asked an examination by a sanity board, lost his race for secretary of state. Sighed one voter: "Cox was the only one of the thousands of candidates for state offices who had a certificate showing him to be sane...
...should express our considered view that, because the loyalty or security risk status of a scientist or any other intellectual may be brought into question, scientists and intellectuals are ill-advised to assert that a reasonable and sane inquiry constitutes an attack upon scientists and intellectuals generally. This board would deplore deeply any notion that scientists are under attack in this country and that prudent study of any individual's conduct and character within the necessary demands of the national security could be either in fact or in appearance a reflection of anti-intellectualism...
...good deal of the trouble in The Cobweb is readymade, since the setting is a Midwest psychiatric sanitarium called the Castle House Clinic for Nervous Disorders. But Head Psychoanalyst Stewart McIver, his wife and his staff spin some extra strands of personal disaster that make the patients seem sane and well adjusted...