Word: saneness
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...long lifetime he gave $530,000,000 to individuals and institutions and even more to his own family (in 1921 John D. Rockefeller Jr. held $410,674,000 in Standard Oil stock alone). Of his devotion to his "duty," his old friend Marcus Alonzo Hanna said: "Sane in every respect but one-he is money mad." The new-minted dimes and nickels he gave away were stuffed into his trouser pockets every morning by his valet, $5 a day. Bestowing them, he always admonished: "Save...
...greater tribute can be paid to the artistry of Mr. Orson Welles and his company, than the fact, that on Sunday evening, for countless hundreds of sane normal people, something as fantastic as an invasion from Mars was reality...
...scientists who make models of atomic structures, Count Alfred, who is head of the Institute of General Semantics, expects important developments from his implement. With it and the theory it illustrates, he hopes to wipe out mankind's time-worn thinking habits, revolutionize its educational systems, create a sane new world. Last week he reported progress...
...certain stage. ''Schizophrenics sometimes cling to reality just in the moment when, because of their disease, they are afraid of losing it completely," Dr. Bender said. "Then they see more than the normal person, who does not always appreciate what he has in this world." Most sane and able artists professionally see "more than the normal person," and in this, as in what Dr. Bender called "the uncanny mysticism" of other pathological daubers, the case work on exhibit invited rude yells from that part of the public which likes to identify the artist with the screwball. What psychiatrists...
...insane. Taking the case into his own hands, Snyder explained his plan (to sue 28 States for infringement of a system he had invented for registering automobiles), declared it would return $20 for each $10 invested, asked for backers. After two hours of deliberation the jury found Cecil Snyder sane. Said Snyder, with a knowing smile: "It was just a conspiracy to get control...