Word: asylums
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...where? While shag-haired assistants morosely packed up the assorted Trotsky belongings, no country in Europe showed any inclination to give asylum to the U. S. S. R.'s onetime Commissar of War. The U. S. was suggested...
...Athens she had befriended Fugitive Samuel Insull. She had successfully smuggled him off on the steamer Maiotis. She had befuddled the Athens police so badly that she faced a charge of perjury. She had rushed off to Rumania to implore Magda Lupescu, King Carol's mistress, to provide asylum for the fugitive. But Insull had not reached that asylum, and Mme Couyoumdjoglou had sailed back to Istanbul only to find that her hero, Insull, was inside a Turkish jail waiting deportation...
...play in local festivals. But Father Elgar was not impressed. He set the boy to work in a law office but Elgar soon walked out, announcing that he preferred to earn his living as a violin teacher. His first steady job was as orchestra leader in the County Lunatic Asylum...
Every editor and every man with sufficient courage to write letters to the press (in defiance of the American belief that anyone who does so is fit for a lunatic asylum) can do his bit of the "job" whereof Nemesis despairs...
...late brother Robert Winthrop ("Sheriff Bob") Chanler was a swashbuckling artist (TIME, Nov. 3, 1930). Brother John Armstrong, who spells his name Chaloner, was committed to Bloomingdale Asylum in 1897, escaped to Virginia in 1900, later sent a famed cable to Paris, when Artist Bob married Singer Lina Cavalieri: "WHO'S LOONY...