Word: psychopathic
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...expression 'and/or' is a split personality, a grammatical psychopath," declared a Baltimore Sim editorial entitled "Grand 'And/Or' Old Carter." "If Senator Carter Glass can succeed in removing it at least from our Federal legislation, he will deserve the thanks of a confused and/or harassed populace...
...stalks about in a torn white gown with hair in her eyes, kicks people in the fundament, hurls bedding out a second-story window, rides a fake horse makes one exit seated backward on a donkey. Whereas most actresses play the Paduan minx as though she were a frustrated psychopath, Miss Fontanne plays her as though she were a young tilly simply spoiling for a good licking. Since for the past decade one of the most amusing spectacles on the U. S. stage has been Mr. Lunt licking Miss Fontanne, their fantastic rowing in The Taming of the Shrew...
...absurd pretense of being richer and more popular than she was. Nowadays,, because people whose circumstances are as comfortable as those of the Adams family seem less to be pitied than admired, a daughter as ashamed of her station as Alice inevitably produces the impression of being a psychopath. The oddity of the effect which time has produced upon the story, however, lies in the inescapable fact that, far from blurring its outlines, the change has merely etched them more sharply against the background of the U. S. scene. Thus, what was in 1922 a shrewd and observant novel, emerges...
...examined by Dr. Harry Hoffman, Criminal Court behavior clinician. Frank of countenance and looking much like any 13-year-old, George Rogalski talked calmly. In what he called the "most fascinating" study of his experience, Dr. Hoffman pronounced the boy sane, not vicious, a "moral imbecile," a sexual psychopath hopelessly antagonistic to girls of his age and preoccupied with very young ones. Last year he was convicted, and soon paroled, by the Juvenile Court for having molested an 8-year-old. (But according to the coroner small Dorette Zietlow had not been touched.) George Rogalski announced he hated his mother...
...sinner leaps out of a window when she learns that her seducer has been packed off by his family to South America. In contrast, the independent lady who insists on being called "Miss" has come to the ward to bear eugenic, fatherless progeny. Others are a lady murderess, a psychopath, an Italian woman, a mother of six-blessedly quiet and collected about the whole business-a malingerer who wants the relief of an abortion. The affairs of this gallery of victims to nature run into each other, bump, skip and leap across two hours of pitiless, often nervously gay drama...