Word: maniacs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...gang of railroad workers captured the "phantom" in Omaha's outskirts, walking the ties. He was a 45-year-old maniac named Frank Carter. He boasted about his marksmanship, displayed his .22 calibre automatic with silencer attachment. He had been paroled from the State prison after conviction for killing a neighbor's cows. He still wanted to "Kill, Kill, Kill," he said. Nebraska hanged...
...three years he was kept in sanatoria and insane asylums, a maniac. That was the beginning of this century. Treatment then in use was to beat and cow the inmates cruelly. Maniac Beers kept tab of the cruelties and through interest in the subject regained mental balance. He was freed. Then he wrote his famed book, A Mind that Found Itself. For 20 years it has been a gospel to social workers...
...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...
...philosopher and a psychiatrist goad-the police on the trail of a hypnotic maniac, but involve a peroxide blonde...
...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...