Word: saneness
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...adjusting itself to the latest conditions, the Prom has preserved itself, and will continue to preserve itself if it follows the same sane policy. The Prom is dead. Long live the Prom! --Yale News...
...Marie Dressier is the Mother Superior of its heroines. His frugality; his apelike way of walking, with his shoulders stooped and his hands hanging about his knees, make him more of an enigma to Hollywood than Hollywood is to him. He defends it against its detractors, calls it busy, sane. His valet. Jenner, who has been with him for 25 years, brings him tea at 3:30 every day, sees that he quits work promptly at 4:30, says he has never seen George Arliss break a monocle. Worn first as an affectation, the Arliss eyeglass, which has ribbed...
...last analysis the paper manifestations of nations are readily passed aside. Polls on disarmament, student international groups, and all the educational facilities that can be devised are able to do little. For the preservation of peace, a sane mental condition, void of scarism, but attempting to reach a sound opinion, is worth more than all the paper agreements that can be framed...
Lawyer Drummond has kept sane in the midst of her bewildering subject by keeping a tight grip on her sense of humor. She calls attention to a Kentucky case in which "a separation due to the wife's refusal to cohabit at all with her spouse is metaphorically described as 'an unfortunate failure to guide the marital craft into the port of happiness.' " If you like cider you may be pleased to learn that habitual use of it, not amounting to habitual drunkenness, is not grounds for divorce in New Hampshire...
...Each nation has discovered and is correcting its error... America, in the name of equality, has allowed her higher institutions to be clogged with a mass of reluctant, if not inferior, minds. Not over 75 per cent at St. Paul's School has the urge for higher education. . . Sound, sane informed leadership has failed the nation more and more as she has extended her system of wideopen training schools...