Word: insaneâ
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...become of a small-town Wisconsin man who, having escaped once into the great world, visits home and is trapped there for the rest of his life by a childhood sweetheart and a deathbed promise to his epileptic father? Miss Gale's answer: his suppressions may drive him insane???that is, up or down the scale of sanity?especially if, having succumbed hastily to the sweetheart, he falls in love with a woman of the world when it is just too late; a woman who waits for him and writes to him for years after...
Taciturn captains prophesied wrecks and disaster. They called the change unnecessary, costly, illogical, insane??? the work of professors and astronomers...
...Swedes we find scoundrels and hypocrites, and I was surprised that the able Senator from Alabama, Mr. Heflin, devoted an hour and 15 minutes to speaking about an immigrant boy who came over here and who had been here only a few months, who happened?perhaps he was insane???to stab a boy who had been born in this country...
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