Word: sanitorium
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...response to the pleas of Radio Commentator and Party-Liner William Gailmor (who, at 29, was convicted of stealing an auto and sent to a sanitorium to be treated for a neurosis), the crowd coughed up big & little contributions totaling some $50,000. Their cheering was cued to the frenzied yelling of Vito Marcantonio, who spoke with violent arm-flailings, like a drowning...
...Perfect Life. After a stay at his father's sanitorium in New Hampshire, young Sidis returned to Harvard. His lifelong physical awkwardness was already apparent. His "marked distrust of people" did not prevent him from graduating cum laude in 1914, aged 16. Reporters bypassed such classmates as Leverett Saltonstall and Sumner Welles in their eagerness to interview the prodigy. He told them: "I want to live the perfect life. The only way to live the perfect life is to live it in seclusion. I have always hated crowds." But he stayed on to breeze through Harvard Law School...