Word: paranoia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Norman Trevor, 52, longtime legitimactor (A Kiss For Cinderella, The Captive, The Goose Hangs High), cinemactor (Beau Geste, Sorrell and Son); at the State Hospital for the Insane in Norwalk, Calif., to which, suffering from paranoia, he had recently been removed from a private sanitarium where he had been committed by friends. He was born in Calcutta; engaged in the jute industry before going on the stage. Twenty-nine years ago an all-round athlete on Britain's Olympic team, he was awarded the prize for finest physique among the contestants of all nations...
Born Criminals do not exist, said George Washington University's Fred August Moss. But many a person has tendencies which predispose him to crime, viz., epilepsy, paranoia, paresis, dementia praecox, senile dementia. Smalltown children are less apt to become criminals than children of large communities, added Columbia's Hugh Hartshorne. A friendly classroom atmosphere is one of the most powerful influences on child character. "Moving pictures do not contribute to delinquency," said Philadelphia's Phyllis Blanchard. "I have sat in motion picture theatres and marveled. . . . When the villain is caught, as is always the case under the policy of those...
...afflicted, said alienists, with chronic hallucinatory paranoia. This is a disease which develops very slowly, coming to maturity in middle life, and characterized by delusions of persecution or grandeur. To the persecution type belong persons such as Miss Gibson who are driven by fear and hate to attack their imaginary persecutors. The grandeur type develops, in rare instances, into such "supermen" of genius, energy, and egotism as Napoleon (now generally considered a paranoiac). This opinion is not shocking if it be recalled that science no longer conceives of two classes of persons: the "sane" and the "insane." The "sane...