Word: paranoidal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...children told them that the teacher was what they termed "cuckoo." A year ago Dr. Emil Altman, chief medical examiner of the Board of Education, was called to see whether Miss Byrne was capable of teaching. After examining her with care, he stated that she was suffering from a "paranoid form of psychosis." At this, Mary Byrne was removed from her classroom, given odd jobs to do in the Training School Library so that she could earn her salary of $3,700 a year, while the Board of Education investigated her case...
...there was a great hue and outcry about Miss Byrne. She had hired a lawyer to get her reinstated to her class room. Her friends said that she had been persecuted, that she had been ousted on prejudice rather than for her inability. "What," they asked, "is a 'paranoid form of psychosis'?" Reporters came to see Mary Byrne. They found her wearing a hat, looking grim, fiddling aimlessly with some papers that some one had given her. To all questions she replied: "I can't say anything-it wouldn't be professional." Another doctor investigated Miss...
...Gregg raises an interesting question on this point. "Is the pachydermatous slightly paranoid and egocentric type that makes a good politician", he asks, "more prevalent on the CRIMSON than the Lampoon...