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...Georgians in 1925 broke into an insane asylum, lynched a demented Negro who had killed his nurse...
...make the body fit a pallet. In circles of Dante's Inferno, and in histories of the Spanish Inquisition, are the rack, the wheel, ingenious machines of torture. In Pick Up the Pieces a victim reports the filthy straitjacket, instrument of torture in a modern, real-life insane asylum. North 3-1,-that was the number of his ward in the last institution he attended- is now a successful publicity director, but he was once a drunkard suffering from delirium tremens with all its accoutrement of weird hallucination. A pest to his family, he voluntarily entered various asylums...
...charge was: Governor Long, "in an attempt to suppress the freedom of the press," had intimidated Publisher-Critic Charles P. Manship of the Baton Rouge Daily State Times, by threatening to expose the fact that Mr. Manship's brother, Douglas, was in an insane asylum. Later Governor Long, in a radio speech, made good his threat. What he did not say was that Douglas Manship was a shock-victim...
...Wales (later Edward VII). Lillie became an actress, enraptured England and the U. S. Her art lacked fire, but people went in droves with their opera glasses. In 1897 Lillie divorced Husband Langtry, long languishing mentally, physically, financially. He died, a year and a half later, in an insane asylum...
...Bumble: Character in Dickens' Oliver Twist. Smug, self-righteous, disagreeable, he is the beadle in the orphan asylum at which Oliver disgraced himself by asking for "more." It was Mr. Bumble who christened Oliver, as follows...