Word: sanitarium
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...world. It is full of retired invalids who bought Cities Service around 55 (now around 4). There are few factories, little smoke. The clear, dry, rarefied air is equable during the day, cool at night. Denverites claim it ventilates their brains. It has made Denver a centre for the sanitarium industry. The sun shines on an average of 304 days a year. The cost of living is below the U. S. city average (a good twelve-room unfurnished house and garage rent for $1,000 a year, taxes are $32.25, steak is 34¢ a lb.). Denverites drink bad whiskey...
Though his work is the breath of life to Vondorn he has enough wits to realize he must keep his lungs to breathe even that exalted air. He goes off to Rainbow Sanitarium in New Mexico, but his passion for astronomy is greater than his passion for health. He begins to work on his book Toward a New Space. Then two violet-blue eyes, across the sanitarium dining-room table, begin to work...
Juno Marin, twice married, has landed in the sanitarium after running the gamut of a gay society in which people ate to live, lived to drink and drank to forget living. In the first flush of their romance Vondorn takes up drinking again, and with that his tale is as good as told. How he and Juno run off to live and decay together in a hut in the desert, how Vondorn slaves at his book, how he visits the nearby Beldoro Observatory, prepares to take up residence with Juno there, is only the long prelude to the ultimate cough...
...losing his mind. Nijinsky never became violent, though U. S. newspapers several years ago carried a story that he had been seen trotting round and round a tree under the im pression that he was a horse. He has always had painting materials in his room in the Bellevue Sanitarium at Kreuzlin gen, where he draws strange bugs, flower arrangements, distorted masks and faces with staring eyes. Not long ago Mme Nijinsky showed a collection of these fancies to Drs. Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung. Both psychoanalysts suggested that she exhibit them abroad not only as works...
...life is not his dismissal from Princeton in 1907 for hijinks, not the period in which he bummed about on ships, not even his long association with the Provincetown Players. It begins on Christmas Eve, 1912, when drink and irregular habits sent him into the Gaylord Farm (Wallingford, Conn.) sanitarium, a tuberculous patient. His biographers note that he went in a boy and came out a man. At least, that was where he started writing seriously. Up to that time his sorely-tried father, Actor James O'Neill, thought his son was just "crazy." Eugene O'Neill...