Word: saneness
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...subject of training in the way attempted yesterday. The demanded indiscriminate investigations by undergraduate athletes for the purpose of reporting teammates guilty of breaking training would be patently foolish and absurd. Such a course cannot be deprecated too strongly; it would severely injure the growth of a sane attitude toward sports...
Shoehorned humbly into a group of presumably sane people-his host, a lawyer, two girl friends, a housekeeper, a butler, a detective and the host's sister- Parker progressively webs them all in their own words and impales them on insane lip-logic. An opportunist juggling ideals, he shifts positions faster than the others, stares long & unfazed into their faces, razzle-dazzles them with winning sophistries until he has confused, ingratiated, amazed, enraged, baffled and terrified them...
...closest to a ponderable theme in Pigeons and People is the old one used by Playwright Cohan of yore, that the sane are insane and the insane sane. Beyond that Cohan comes out flatly in favor of "straightaway" thinking. Cohan theatre, Cohan jauntiness make what promises more into a dialectic jig and a first-rate farce...
Mental disease is a vast public problem. It has become a question of whether to> let people die cancerous and sane, or witless from suspicion of cancer. Cancero-phobia is a serious psychosis...
...above that $1 per thousand. Worst district is No. 4, comprising Colorado, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and the Missouri Valley States. For holdup insurance in this district a small-town banker will pay ten times as much as he would in the safe & sane East-$20 per thousand up to $10,000, $10 per thousand beyond that...