Word: saneness
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...suits and gay bow ties in the summertime. He works as a clerk in a tiny office in Lawyers Title & Guaranty Co., goes home every night to a furnished room in Brooklyn. When newshawks swooped down on him last week they found him unperturbed by his bankruptcy, and quite sane. It was a real bankruptcy, and his assets were only $100, and his liabilities were over $44,000,000-and yet his creditors would lose considerably less than $100,000 in actual cash. Explanation...
...with bigamy. Said "Ma" Kennedy at first: "Those other Janes better leave my man alone." Said she later: "I am out of his personal battles. From now on I'm going to be Old Mother Kennedy." County authorities last week ordered Mrs. Kennedy examined for lunacy, pronounced her sane...
...which he has discovered." Hearstwriter Brisbane of the New York Evening Journal, stung to rage by a Picasso abstraction, reproduced it last fortnight, added, "You feel ashamed for the human race when you realize that stuff as this [sic] is actually shown and bought by people supposed to be sane...
Governor Roosevelt was followed in the afternoon by Pennsylvania's Republican Governor Gifford Pinchot. The program committee had assigned him a safe and sane topic: "Timber Needs of the Future." This he swept aside to launch into a tirade against public utilities, his favorite political theme. He warned the Governors of the political domination of the Power Trust. He named four groups: Mellon-Morgan, Insull, North American, Harris-Forbes. These, he said, generated about 95% of U. S. electricity. He predicted their merger into one colossal combination. Excerpts from a speech which got the biggest applause...
...psychic components of his personality. A manic is a moody person, one subject to fits of exaltation and depression. When a manic or a schizoid or any type of mental aberration annoys his neighbors, they call him crazy and have him locked up. Yet there is no perfectly sane person on earth. Sanity is merely the general average of a community's general behavior...