Word: saneness
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Have you anyone that can give a sane reason as to why this man gets so much publicity and such a build-up for his very mediocre stories? I read your article about him and immediately read his new book...
...Berlin, an elderly, indomitable English lady planted herself one morning last week in front of the Duke's hotel, sane at the top of her voice clear through the song For He's a Jolly Good Fellow...
...rest of their lives because their parents heeded their pleas to 'play with fireworks' is a sobering one indeed. I cannot urge too strongly that every possible precaution be taken to make the figures for 1937 prove that at last we have had a safe and sane Fourth of July." Preliminary reports of the July 4th holiday weekend showed 437 deaths in 46 States: 104 drownings, 247 traffic deaths, 86 others including six from fireworks. New Jersey's authorities hoped to provide a salutary example to other States by threatening to jail (90 days) and fine...
...amused him especially. It was fun, at a safe distance, teasing the surly ones with such remarks as: "You big lazy bum, why don't you go home and go to work?" In time he noticed nothing particularly "goofy" about any of them. It was the intrusion of sane outsiders on Visitors' Day that brought back a depressing sense of something wrong...
During his last year Author Brown gave up pacing 20 miles a day, was much in demand as a speaker at business men's luncheons. A free man again, he found the sane world much nicer but also stranger than a mental hospital. What best evokes for him his asylum days is the worried expression of the people on the streets of New York City, their mutterings to themselves. After four years the only asylum habit that clings to him is counting passengers as they get on and off elevators, to make sure none of them has slipped...