Word: alienists
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Mirror. The Hearst Mirror covered its front page with close-up portraits of the Brownings and, in prodigious type: "SUNNY CRAZY." (Mr. Browning's portrait stood for the "B" in "Bunny"). Shaking letters were used to print: "FLAMING YOUTH." Subtitle: "His Mania Causes Peculiar Love for Young Girls-Alienist." Text: "A famous [anonymous] alienist . . . diagnoses his case as 'pathological pedophilia,' a symptom of a disease of the brain classified as a sexual aberration. . . ." The Mirror, too, strove for features to please child minds-an "interview" (in mixed dialects) with Mr, Browning's pet African goose...
...lusty offspring, he begins talking wildly of "seeing through" the eternal moil of creatures struggling to exist, acquire, mate and reproduce. He "sees through" to the essential, motile miracle of living?or something like that; neither he nor Miss Gale can quite express it. His wife sends for an alienist. He rushes off to Alia Locksley, the waiting one, hoping she will understand his prodigious discovery. But she is only sex-hungry. She sends for the same alienist. So Bernard Mead returns to Pauquette, grimly reflecting that he has a few years left in which to study...
...Since many of the guests were discourteous enough to stare, Mme. Tiv raised her lorgnette and swept them with a reproving glance. Soon a policeman entered, stripped off his overcoat, clothed Mme. Tiv in it and escorted her protesting to a police station. There she was examined by an alienist who pronounced her entirely sane...
Married. Elizabeth White, 35, daughter of Judge John J. White, president of the Marlborough-Blenheim Hotel Co. in Atlantic City, to Dr. Daniel J. McCarthy, 51, neurologist and alienist. The bride presented 700 hotel employes with $10 gold pieces, dined them...
...Representative John J. Kindred of New York, an alienist, called on the President to urge him to commute the death sentence of Lieutenant John S. Thompson convicted by court martial of murdering his fiancée, Miss Audrey Burleigh, in the Philippines. The father of the convicted man, a Long Island clergyman, contends that his son is insane and that he inherited insanity from both sides of the family. Representative Kindred declared that the Army medical examinations of the murderer show he is abnormal. The President took the case under consideration...