Word: straitjacket
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reads of ogres chopping off legs and arms to make the body fit a pallet. In circles of Dante's Inferno, and in histories of the Spanish Inquisition, are the rack, the wheel, ingenious machines of torture. In Pick Up the Pieces a victim reports the filthy straitjacket, instrument of torture in a modern, real-life insane asylum. North 3-1,-that was the number of his ward in the last institution he attended- is now a successful publicity director, but he was once a drunkard suffering from delirium tremens with all its accoutrement of weird hallucination. A pest...
...appeal to the Opposition by puppet-President Ignatz Moscicki was ignored. A story gained credence that the sick Lion of Poland had fallen victim to delusions of persecution, had shot his own gardener, was raving, confined in a straitjacket...
...Delirium of the 18th Amendment" is a searching sarcasm on the Great Misfortune, depicting a doctor endeavoring to cram a medicine into the unwilling maw of his patient, confined in a straitjacket. This is a Japanese jibe, by Eitaro Ishigaki...