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Word: maniacs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...youths of the excellent corps now our guests is a son of the celebrated chief of the Creek nation, well known for his martial achievements and attachment to the cause of the United States. The Cadets's name is David Maniac, from Alabama...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LAST VISIT OF CADETS TO BOSTON IN 1821 DESCRIBED BY CONTEMPORARY ARTICLE | 10/20/1928 | See Source »

...philosopher and a psychiatrist goad-the police on the trail of a hypnotic maniac, but involve a peroxide blonde...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murder | 9/24/1928 | See Source »

...34th annual convention of the American manufacturers of toilet articles, at Atlantic City, N. J. An approving audience heard about insane women led back to lucid normality by being given cosmetics to play with. Those more scientifically-minded pointed to the fact that if during the deep depressions and maniac excitements of insanity, patients are oblivious of their appearance, become dirty, disorderly, slovenly when left to themselves, they would be equally oblivious of the daintiest creams and cosmetics. Only when the psychotic state has changed, when they are again aware of the outside world and the need of adjustment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cosmetics | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

...Criminal Insane at Lima -this man heard muffled cries in the asylum. A huge, lunatic Negro had over- powered one of the guards and .was deliberately strangling him. Was it sane courage or his own deranged brute instinct that inspired burly George Remus to leap at the Negro maniac, to smash and batter the Negro with his fists until the throttled guard could get free; to continue fighting until, with the guard's help, the Negro was over- powered and clapped into a cell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: In a Madhouse | 2/6/1928 | See Source »

Under a sharp, shrewd, cocky jaw, a lanky loon in a striped suit might have been bashing a smaller, silk-hatted maniac into cross-eyed insensibility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Wows | 3/28/1927 | See Source »

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