Word: phobic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Divorced. Prof. William Ellery Leonard, 61, poet, English Professor at the University of Wisconsin, famed for the "phobic prison" which keeps him within a few blocks of the University; by Grace Golden Leonard, 29; in Madison. Wis. Soon after they were married in June 1935, Prof. Leonard announced that his wife had taken him by the hand and led him out of the six-block area in which he had been held by agoraphobia. The cure was only temporary. A year ago Mrs. Leonard obtained a divorce, later had the decree set aside. The grounds were the same...
...Leonard, 59, longtime Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin; and Grace Golden, 26, graduate student, his third wife; in Madison, Wis. In his autobiography, The Locomotive God, Professor Leonard described and analyzed the fears which for a quarter of a century have prevented his traveling beyond the phobic barriers of his home and the six blocks surrounding it. He was divorced last year by his second wife who, after 20 years of marriage, charged "cruel and inhuman treatment by means other than physical violence...
...cigar store over which he prefers to live. Seven warships steamed into the harbor. From Campo Mayo, the 8th Cavalry clattered into town with full equipment to strengthen police reserves. President Hippolito, whose insistence on living in his little cigar store apartment is only one mark of his almost phobic dislike of ostentation, was made to drive to and from the Executive offices, the center of a convoy of eight hooting, speeding motor cars, bristling with riflemen. Second night of the scare, 5,000 Irigoyen followers, who love their elderly President so much that they have given up all party...