Word: sanatorium
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mother in this play poisons her daughter who is violently, permanently insane. "I have killed her," she stubbornly cries, although the mummer jury considers the murder kindly and exonerates her of crime. Then she enters a sanatorium to nurse the psychopathic children of other people towards a semblance of sanity...
Honest Liars-Feeble farce in a sanatorium...
Dictator-Marshal Pilsudski left Warsaw a fortnight ago, ostensibly to "take the cure" at a sanatorium for nervous diseases in Druskieniki on the Lithuanian frontier. Rumors spread that the Marshal's notoriously irresolute brain was tottering. Then his personal jingoist news organ Armed Poland flaunted a demand that Poland seize from Germany the territories of Ermeland, Stettin, Oppeln and Breslau, "because the Treaty of Versailles has done Poland an injustice by not granting her the ancient Polish frontier of 1772." Straightway it was rumored that Pilsudski, super-melodramatist, had feigned illness that he might secretly view the terrain...
...material side of life, there were a few but successful attempts which I should like to mention. Perhaps the greatest was the creation of the University Sanatorium in Leysen, Switzerland by the Swiss students. During the last year the French students raised the necessary funds to establish a similar sanatorium in the French Alps near Grenoble...
...This New Latin word means an "establishment to educate people how to keep well." A "sanatorium" is an establishment for treating specific diseases or for applying particular remedies...