Word: saneness
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...James V. Converse, 17-year-old daughter of Harry Hayes Morgan, consul-general to Brussels, and twin sister of Mrs. Reginald C. Vanderbilt, recent bride: " I am incorporating the Thelma Morgan Pictures, Inc., with $100,000 capital and will produce big, sane, and sound 'specials'. I will be my own star. Hitherto my chief experience has been in Junior League shows...
...even if this book of suggestions does not prove a means of introducing the millenium, it should accomplish a vast amount of good by diverting creative energy into truly useful channels. If inventors will direct their resourcefulness toward carrying out the sane suggestions in "What's Wanted", they will not only spare themselves much profitless labor, but they will relieve the jammed Patent Offices everywhere. The hordes of perpetual motion machines, trick safety-pins and mechanical dolls that flood these departments represent untold effort by their perpetrators, and no less wasted energy on the part of those who have...
...course, all this declamation is as silly as it can very well be. No one denies the nobility of such sentiments. No one in his senses could fail to approve the action of committee and Board. And, parenthetically, no sane member of either body could very well have reached a different conclusion. But, nevertheless, the incident is anything but a triumph of toleration and a victory for free thought. On the contrary it is a magnificent example of the power of platitudes...
...often sung is this song of a scoffing world. A missionary is regarded as a man who has lost interest in this world, or who has been mentally affected by a blighted love-affair. No sane man would give his life to work in some unknown place on the other side of the globe. It is sacrifice without visible return...
Henry Tyrrell, art critic of The New York World, now replies with the question "Is Chesterton Sane?" Apparently, his conclusion is that Chesterton is misled by his head, though his " heart is in the right place...