Word: psychopaths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...White out of Krafft-Ebing, pranced a bleached Venus (Nini Theilade), a hoop-pantalooned Lola Montez (Ludwig's grandfather's mistress) with a belt of false teeth, Mr. and Mrs. Sacher Masoch in riding breeches, and enough assorted subconscious erotica to strain the limbo of an experienced psychopath. Meanwhile, at one side of the stage, a moribund, vine-sprouting faun in red tights concentrated on knitting a sock with three-foot knitting needles...
...Whenever a new case is reported, detectives are to study the records, social service workers observe social causes, psychiatrists give mental examinations, and physicians search for venereal and other diseases. At the end of an investigation the accused will go to an insane asylum if he is a proven psychopath, or be prosecuted for felony...
...morbid and terrifying- men muttering uneasily or suddenly crying out in their sleep. Around me was that underworld of dreams haunted by submerged memories of warfare and its intolerable shocks and self-lacerating failures to achieve the impossible. By daylight each mind was a sort of aquarium for the psychopath to study. . . . But by night each man was back in his doomed sector of a horror-stricken Front Line where the panic and stampede of some ghastly experience was re-enacted among the livid faces of the dead...
...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...