Word: asylums
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...back en brosse into a stippled green background. The face has a yellow tinge, the eyes are disdainful and cold above an astonishing fiery red beard. It is not hard to imagine the possessor of such features racing helter-skelter through life and at last landing in an insane asylum...
Bundled off to the Illinois insane asylum at Kankakee was "Leaping Lena" Levy...
...ASYLUM-William Seabrook-Harcourt, Brace...
...arrest early this year as the "World's Meanest Mother," Frau Juenemann let her three young children starve to death in a cellar while she spent her last few marks making the rounds of Berlin's cheaper night clubs. Since Herr Juenemann is in an insane asylum, Germany's New Justice assumed that her unborn babe would be a debit to the race...
...calling for a padded cell as preferable to modern scientific, heartless hypocrisy, another patient told him quietly: "Say, fellow, you've got it all wrong. You don't tell them. They tell you." Once he had accepted its concealed, but absolutely inflexible, discipline. William Seabrook found the asylum a pleasant and interesting lockup. Soon he was walking miles through the snow, going regularly to the barber shop, whether he wanted to or not, attending compulsory dances and cinemas, and in the spring playing golf and tennis. But he could...