Word: amuck
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sheriff Bob went back to painting. Followed a second marriage to the tempestuous primadonna Lina Cavalieri. Another brother, John Armstrong Chanler, had attracted no little attention by running amuck, shooting his butler, and effecting a spectacular escape from the Bloomingdale Hospital for the Insane (Manhattan). He fled to Virginia, was judged legally sane, changed his name to "Chaloner" and set a brass plate in his dining room floor "To the Memory of a Faithful Servitor." No sooner did the news of Artist Bob's marriage to the spectacular Cavalieri reach Virginia than Brother John sent his most famous telegram...
Johns Hopkins students long ago took a cue from Dr. Osler and nicknamed their school "St. Johns." Their patriarch they nicknamed "Popsy." They love him for defending them at faculty meetings after they have run amuck. They have affectionate stories about him. Example...