Word: sanitarium
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...Senator is said to be in a SANITARIUM up north-and Frank Hampton his secretary continues to wire him that AL SMITH CANNOT AND WILL NOT BE NOMINATED. I think as soon as he learns of what happened at HOUSTON (and it was a plenty) that he will wire the parsons and the wimmen that it would be much better to have SMITH in the WHITE HOUSE than to have NEGRO DEPUTIES IN NORTH CAROLINA PLACING HANDCUFFS ON WHITE MEN AND TAKING THEM OFF TO THE PENETENTIARY TO SERVE TIME FOR VIOLATIONS OF THE VOLSTEAD ACT AND OTHER CRIMES...
Those who fished the young woman out of Berlin waters found her in delirium and unable to tell her own name. Taken to a sanitarium, she encountered one Fraulein Peutert who soon made the striking announcement that the new patient was the Grand Duchess Tatiana, second daughter of Nicholas the Last. When the Baroness de Buxhaven, onetime Maid of Honor at the Court of Nicholas II, visited the young woman in Berlin and positively declared that she was not Tatiana, it was later announced that she is Anastasia...
...went gold prospecting to Honduras; shipped as a common sailor to South American ports; was destitute, "on the beach," for a considerable period in Buenos Aires; played in vaudeville; became a reporter in New London, Conn. These years hacked his health to pieces and it was in a Connecticut sanitarium, defeating a faint touch of tuberculosis, that he stopped to think. Soon he wrote his first play and proceeded to George Pierce Baker's famed playwright's class at Harvard to achieve technique. In 1916 at the tiny Wharf Theatre in Provincetown, Mass., his first production came to life...
...passersby, Artist Perfielieff became conscious that his work aroused not merely interest but indignation. What Metropolitan critics Would see as dazzling, grotesque or smartly degenerate the Haitians saw as libels on themselves. Finally the editor of Le Novelliste (Port-au-Prince) thundered: "If there existed a leper settlement, or sanitarium for paralytics, it is certain that this painter would probably go there in search of Haitian specimens. We suspect him of being one of those floating timber revolutionists that Russia has scattered across the world. It is the duty of the government and of the police to prevent these paintings...
Died. Wayne B. Wheeler, 57, famed general counsel of the Anti-Saloon League of America; at Battle Creek (Mich.) sanitarium; of kidney ailment...