Word: asylums
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...once visited an insane asylum, she wrote, and "for a while we had fun cataloguing the better-known 'liberals' according to the various types" she had seen there. Examples...
Lepers were on the loose in Rio. Slipping out of a Sࣀ Paulo asylum and eluding spotters, at least a dozen of them entered the capital, mingled in cinema crowds, sipped coffee at sidewalk cafes. They told horrifying stories of life in the leprosaria: the guards were brutal, the food inedible, medical care nonexistent...
Died. William Buehler Seabrook, 59, explorer-author who raised readers' hair and eyebrows with his adventures among Haitian voodoo worshipers and African cannibals (The Magic Island, Jungle Ways), once detailed his stay in a mental hospital where he went to be cured of alcoholism (Asylum); by his own hand (overdose of sleeping pills-see MEDICINE); in Rhinebeck...
Vaslav Nijinsky, lithe, high-leaping ballet great of 30 years ago, reported slain as a madman by the Nazis last May, turned out to be living in a bomb-blasted Vienna hotel. His wife Romola told reporters that he had almost regained his reason when he left a Swiss asylum in 1940, but life in air-raided Europe had set him back again. At 55 he looked 70: his cheeks were sunken from a near-starvation diet (he lost 40 pounds in the past four months). A reporter could hold his attention only by drawing him doodles. Yet, though...
...mild Lee Judson querulously noted that his bride seemed unconcerned, she sweetly replied: "Well, if you must know, Mr. Logan bit Mrs. Logan's nose. She's at a hospital for some plastic surgery." Mrs. Peete remained unperturbed when Arthur Logan was taken off to an insane asylum, where he died...