Word: saneness
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Thomas J. Johnson, new Circus Czar: "I issued this statement to the public: 'I am going to make circuses safe, sane, reputable...
...thoroughly deflated condition. Furthermore, all our Babbitts have learned the value of conservatism by bitter experience in recent years, and it is doubtful whether the unreasoning Moody and Sankey attitude toward increased production which swept the country the year after the Armistice will soon be repeated. A safe and sane rather than a delirious prosperity should be the result. The financial editor of The New York Times very soundly compares prospective conditions in 1923 to the orderly periods of business expansion experienced...
...most heartily do I welcome the sane utterance of Dr. Steinmetz and rejoice that he has so adequately stated the truth. The only fault that I would fine with Dr. Steinmetz' utterance, indeed, is that perhaps he might have gone further still and pointed out the obvious truth that there are other "facts" than those which lie in the realm of the material. Faith, itself, is a fact, even though it can neither be weighed, felt, smelt, tasted, or experienced by any other sense perception. Love is another such fact. Penitence is another such fact. Hope is another such fact...
Such would, be the doctor's report on Mexico after the two years of the Obreton treatment. Internal disorders have been checked, leaving the patient sane, if weak. The economic condition is stagnant, but there are distinct signs of improvement, given proper nourishment. Outside complications of an international nature have remained in statu quo. Indications, on the whole, point to a gradual but complete recovery...
...character. Professor Kittredge stated that the madness of the king was the author's chief contribution to the plot. He disproved the theory, however, that King Lear was made from the beginning of the play to the end, pointing out several instances where the old man was quite clearly sane, especially in the catastrophe where it was dramatically necessary that he regain his reason in order to effect a complete reconciliation with Cordelia...