Word: saneness
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...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...
Springfield Coach John Bunn, and James E. Coogan, a member of the National Basketball Rules Committee, both applauded the changes. Coogan said he was particularly impressed by the "normal and sane course" which the new-type game took in the final three minutes, instead of the "indiscriminate fouling" of the regular game...
Johnson said yesterday's session also "eliminated some of the complexities," a necessary step, "before anybody can make some sane judgments on the problem." Paul D. Sheats '54 wryly added that Conant and Buck "have a great faculty for facile argument...