Word: maniac
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...full share of psychotics. Last week in Chicago an egregious religionist, who in his time had attracted the notice of both police and psychiatrists, was discovered by the Chicago Times (tabloid) to be "doing business at the same old stand." He was Giuseppe Maria Abbate, 51, onetime convict, onetime maniac, known to his 100-odd present followers as the "Celestial Messenger...
...have to stay behind them whether for professional or punitive reasons. Druggin (Barton MacLane), a bear cat for discipline but incapable of handling men, is replaced by Jameson, an army officer who tries to substitute psychology for solitary confinement. His first test comes when a religious maniac gets hold of a guard's rifle and threatens a mass massacre of his fellow convicts because they had refused spiritual redemption. With the amazing coolness common to motion picture actors in such crises, Jameson strolls up and takes the gun away from him. The next impasse is a sit-down strike...
...extrication and the return of Camille to the husky footballer who really loves her provide further complications which, although not unfalteringly hilarious, disclose an unexpected flair for swashbuckling satire on the part of reedy Actor George Curzon, who last year played a somewhat insipid Parnell in Parmil, an unpleasant maniac in Black Limelight. Apparently no more actionable than a last year's film (Sing, Baby, Sing) along the same story lines, Hitch Your Wagon would probably seem to such an experienced theatre man as John Barrymore rather less amusing...
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...Crockett, Calif., David Locke was fined $500 and sentenced to six months in jail for chaining his nine-year-old daughter to a bed, flaying her with a belt and hurling knife at her because she was "a virtual maniac...