Word: saneness
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...Said sane, judicious Hatton Sumners of Texas, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee: "Gentlemen get up here and talk about how many judges we must have [to administer the act]. We should have thought about that before we brought these powers and duties up here from the States. . . . We have only this choice: either to turn the American people loose, subject to the governmental power of an appointed personnel ... or we have got to make it possible for the citizen to resort to the only place under the Anglo-Saxon system of government that an aggrieved person...
There is no doubt that we were all wrong, that Artie Show is an eminently sane young man, and that his critics are raving idiots...
...each of these stories is almost as warm, as living, as persuasive, as if a first-rate writer had written them. But they have a woman-magazine-overtone, a sort of moral odor of Ivory Soap which gets oppressive. Thus tuned for housewives, the high quotient of safe-and-sane marriages, superior wives, is notable...
...puffing, no pedantics, just tells it straight, like any well-informed guy reassuringly named Elmer. But 50-year-old, Indiana-born Elmer Davis, a onetime Rhodes Scholar, star of a booming decade (1914-24) on the New York Times, fictioneer and political pundit, has much more than a safe-&-sane, down-home twang. In his ten years on the Times he rose swiftly from cub to something approaching an Elder Statesman, writing editorials, roving Europe, handling extra-special news stories, enjoying a leeway few Times reporters have had in the news columns...
Only time can prove the value of insulin shock treatment. Most patients remain sane afterwards for at least a year; others, who show no good effects immediately after treatment, may take several months to "ripen" into sanity. Best results occur in young patients, between the ages of 17 and 25. But more stable is the sanity won by persons of more mature age, who do not have to contend again with the psychic hazards of adolescence. For schizophrenia victims who have been ill more than six months, there is little hope, although obstreperous patients may become gentler, more obedient after...