Word: alienist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vague rumors of food riots in remote Reich cities, discontent deep in the underground chambers of the Westwall fortifications (". . . Dugouts are crammed with munitions ... air is foul ... a shortage of food. . . ."). An anonymous physician, just back from Germany, was quoted as saying that Adolf Hitler was under an alienist's care for paranoid manic-depression...
Into the courtroom stalked black-gowned Widow Gustloff to give her evidence. Immediately 24 Nazis jumped to their feet, raised their right arms in the Nazi salute. Next witness was the Swiss State's alienist. Dr. J. B. Joerger. The common-sense people of Switzerland have no time for rival alienists who dispute interminably the sanity of a prisoner. They appoint one man like Dr. Joerger whose opinion is final. "Frankfurter suffers mental and physical disturbances, factors causing limitation of responsibility...
This vexed another pugnacious pundit. Dr. Smith Ely Jelliffe, 69, who gained fame & fortune as an alienist for the defense of Madcap Harry K. Thaw in 1907 when "brain storm" was first offered as a valid excuse for murder. Commented Psychoanalyst Jelliffe: "Dr. Sachs was talking ex cathedra. It's just a new attempt to spread the old gossip and scandal we've been fighting for 40 or 50 years. They don't like to see us get any fees...
...swarmed with people who have no business there. Flemington was not unusual. In a French-revolution air, the courtroom was suffocated with people eating, people chewing, people drinking ginger ale from quart battles, people demonstrating in every conceivable fashion their contempt for the court. Mr. McDonald recalls an eminent alienist's examination of a row of 12 women at the Loeb-Leopold trial; only one of the 12 did not readily exhibit recognizable signs of psychosis...
This time there was no Clarence Darrow, no highly paid alienist, no maudlin press, no bribed jury, nor oratorical defense lawyers, and no harassing of bereaved relatives on the witness stand. Thurmond and Holmes were too gulity to be accorded the delightful interlude called American criminal justice. The mob was sick of a system that convicts 299 out of 300 law abiding citizens accused of violating traffic regulations and then refuses to convict 79 out of 30 accused murderers...