Word: saner
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...folk, many of whom have waited at vantage points since afternoon to see the gods descend from their chariots and pass nobly through the gates. Radio stations spread each new arrival's name across the miles of night. Stars cry their greeting through the microphone. Bewildered tourists from a saner world blink and are startled as they step into the white lobby light where the inevitable cameras click...
Poetry is dangerous metier for so gifted a juggler. In saner prose she has twice acquired merit: Jennifer Lorn is exquisitely humorous for its very artificiality; The Orphan Angel, good narrative for all the beauty of its imaginative flights...
...foul: "away with such fellows from the earth". That panic, with its follies and wrongs, has largely subsided; but these two men have been mentally placed in the dreaded class, and for many citizens it has become impossible to wipe out this first picture and replace it by a saner one, remembering that they are not on trial for their opinions...
...Senate later unanimously elected as its President whitebearded Paul Doumer, lifelong friend of Aristide Briand, and Finance Minister in a recent Briand Cabinet (TIME, March 15). Both men were extremists in their youth, long since turned safer, saner...
...more people with the power to bring criticism of college and university, daily before the public eye would stress such things as have been mentioned by the "Herald" and the "Times", then the country at large might have a saner conception of what college really means. And the moving picture hero with a crazy-quilt sweater and patent leather hair might be removed from his niche of credence in the public mind...