Word: saneness
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Once more America is threatened with a new kind of prohibition, which may well be termed prohibition of misconception. Already the movies, in defense of the American farmer, have decided to abolish the "hayseed" from the screen. Farmers, hereafter, will be dressed in sane apparel. However this is merely the beginning...
...America got out of the war was prohibition, the 'flu,' $18,000,000,000 in debts and 323,000 casualties. . . . The Ruhr situation is the greatest crime committed by the white race. . . . The only Government that has taken a sane attitude has been England...
Though it is undoubtedly unwise to try to make any prophecies as to 100,000-sellers for the Fall, it is sane enough perhaps to attempt to point the modest finger of discrimination at some few novels which seem worth recommending to the judicious reader, sight unseen. Imprimis, The Rover, by Conrad. And The Blind Bow-Boy which Carl Van Vechten, its author, describes as " a cartoon for a stained glass window," whatever that means. Jennifer Larne, a sedate extravaganza by Elinor Wylie. And the new Hergesheimer if it's the one we think it is. Meanwhile, the literary roulette...
...weeks. As a counterprotest the Bureau sent armed guards, and finally machine guns, to the spot. The only casualty so far was the killing of one cattleman as he was about to dynamite one of the vats. The Department of Agriculture is determined to bring about safe and sane cattle-raising, even at the point...
...used by a group of fake-spiritualists to add, by his turbaned presence, proper mystic color to their meetings. Altogether, he saw Amerca as few foreign visitors see it-and in the " Epilogue," where he treats of the differences and likenesses between West and East, he has some very sane and original things...