Word: saneness
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...pleased to be the donor of the annual Logan prize to Chicago's Art Institute but does not like the modernist quality of recent prizewinning paintings, engineered a rival exhibition of pictures to show "Sanity in Art." Among her placid lady guests and her safe and sane pictures, little old Mrs. Logan wandered, smiling brightly...
...temporary mental derangement which renders a person not responsible for his acts. After Dr. Smith Ely Jelliffe, a Manhattan neurologist, told a jury that Thaw was thus deranged at the time of the shooting, he was acquitted, confined in an asylum. Later a jury found him sane, set him free...
...slums, hospitals and prisons in recent years, last week turned its attention to an insane asylum. All the Living takes a steady, unhysterical look at the inside of an overcrowded, understaffed state institution, makes no attempt to prettify the facts, none to magnify the horrors. The mad, like the sane, have their differing personalities, and in an atmosphere vocally more suggestive of a bird shop than a human habitation. All the Living runs the gamut from a cheerful nut willing to swap the White House for a cigar to sex-tormented schoolteachers and victims of dementia praecox...
...course it is effective," cabled Matthews of the bombing. "Human beings are not built to withstand such horror . . . makes one either hysterical or on the verge of hysteria . . . hard to remain sane...
...these two sources came the fitting title of a book published this week by Manhattan's No. 1 dress designer, petite, smart, feline Elizabeth Hawes.* To Designer Hawes, "fashion" is superfluous decoration. In the process of telling how she shrugged it off she gives the dress trade a sane and entertaining dressing down...