Word: saneness
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...Deeds. Precisely opposite conclusions can be drawn from what the Gaullist Government has actually done to date. Examples: a harsh, clearly authoritarian press law would certainly deprive France, at least for an interim, of anything like a free press; a sane, clearly democratic .election law would provide step-by-step elections, from towns to provinces to all France, as Allied troops liberate the departements...
...Hitler. "Whatever comes of this war there must be no killing of Hitler. Not that there can be any serious objection in these sanguinary days to a certain amount of preventive and exemplary killing. . . . There is a long list of sane men, torturers, sadists and murderers, who should be tried and marked down for execution and given no quarter. But not this poor, crazy Austrian imbecile...
...famed brattish Baby Snooks, is also an ardent collector of artistic "Snooksology"−drawings and paintings by children. Like paintings by the insane, paintings by children, she believes, are often inspired by a freshness of visual impact and a perception of significant detail which other artists lose by remaining sane and growing up. Last week young & old Baltimoreans could see what Miss Brice means, at an exhibit of 41 drawings and paintings selected from more than 100 "masterpieces" by children, which for 20-odd years she has been assembling in Europe...
...Brother John had escaped from New York's Bloomingdale Asylum, gone to Virginia, where he was declared legally sane...
...keep himself sane during his long devotion to thousands of little cards, Co-Editor Hulbert refreshed himself with detective stories. But what Sir William chiefly likes to do when not defining a word is to change the subject by defining another one. Last week he was in a hillside cottage above the pretty village of Watlington, plugging away on material for his Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue, which has been in progress for twelve years. But as an old word wrestler he well knows that no lexicon is ever complete or wholly correct, and is partly out-of-date...