Word: saneness
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...ourselves "a estilo Mallison." After dinner we are going to the beautiful Cine Metro, built and operated by misbehaved Americans, to see the Marx Brothers. After reading Mr. Mallison's letter, I believe that I am the only American in South America that would probably spend such a sane evening...
When Lieut. Hetrick and his classmates left Kelly Field, they had an average of 225 flying hours, winding up on relatively safe advanced trainers which cruise at about 180 m.p.h., land at a sane 65-70 m.p.h. Allison-engined, Curtiss-made P-40s do 300 m.p.h. in routine flight, land at a hot 90-100 m.p.h...
...meanings of the word genius. He was a lap dog for cultivated ladies, loveless as a serpent, soaked to the soul in the most indecent self-pity. He was also ruthlessly loyal to the fact of his genius as a poet. Professor Butler looks at him with a level, sane, exacting eye. The result is the first biography and critique of Rilke to be worthy of its subtle, over-culted subject, "the greatest German poet since Hòlderlin...
...third group was made up of the weaker, just-one-more side of almost every U.S. businessman. Henderson regards this as the strongest factor influencing price rises. Although all sane businessmen fear inflation, none regards "a leetle bitsy price rise in his own industry" as responsible for it. To businessmen in certain long-depressed industries, higher prices seem simple justice, reviving dreams of some pre-1929 parity of their own. Example: real estate (whose owners would emerge mortgage-free from any real inflation...
...what Churchill could not-bring about peace. The Germans are such awful snobs. [Hess's flight] was merely a return to normality . . . a desire to escape from the asylum [Germany] in which he has so long been confined. . . . . His activities must be considered as those of a perfectly sane man." > Dr. Gregory Zilboorg of Manhattan: "Hess may have a megalomanic-paranoiac trend. Hess's profound devotion to Hitler over so many years was semi-pathologic and he may have been suffering from a homosexual panic when he ran away. He may be a pathologic person but not necessarily...