Word: sanitarium
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...unlike Babbitt, Fred Cornplow is harassed by two extraordinarily rude, extravagant, self-centred children who almost drive him crazy and then try to lock him in a sanitarium so he can recover the mental balance they have destroyed. Son Howard is a handsome, stupid, unprincipled college boy who is always borrowing money, wrecking his father's cars, and trying to lie his way out. Daughter Sara is a handsome, ill-natured poseur who becomes a Communist, falls in love with an agitator, overdraws her allowance of $1,000 a year and spends most of her time making poisonous remarks...
...When Bianca's young cousin Peter Cable, fresh from Oxford, gets tangled up with the Galère, they tear him apart in no time. Both Louis and Peter are arrested in an opium den, involved in a scandal that cannot be laughed off. Peter dies in a sanitarium while Bianca, who has tried to save him, and Louis, who let him go down, are at his bedside. They separate, Bianca to go through a period of mild dissipation with the Galère, Louis a season of belated sobriety. Bianca can love a man "enough to be jealous...
...seat. I didn't lose consciousness, but my leg and side hurt. I guess I was about the only one that wasn't knocked out." Passenger Robinson set off alone down the snow-spattered mountain, managed to stagger four miles to the Olive View Sanitarium despite a broken ankle. Inmates there had heard the impact and screams of the victims borne by the wind, had already given the alarm...
Died. Field Marshal Julius Gömbös. circa 50, bullnecked, swashbuckling Premier of Hungary, longtime admirer and disciple of Benito Mussolini; of complications following a kidney ailment; in a sanitarium at Nymphenburg, Germany. After the War he founded an anti-Semitic society called the "Awakened Magyars," restored punishment by flogging in the Hungarian army, renounced anti-Semitism when he became Premier four years ago. At news of his death his cabinet resigned to await developments...
...this book. I have been and am such a fool." When Dr. Thorpe's Iawyers mentioned the name of John Barrymore, whom they proposed to question in connection with "statements in Miss Astor's diary," that life-worn old actor immediately reported sick in a Culver City sanitarium. However, no screen lover but a sad-eyed dramatist was cast as Miss Astor's No. 1 partner-in-sin. Browsing through Miss Astor's diary, the doctor's lawyers said they found that she had recorded experiencing a "thrilling ecstasy" in the company of George...