Word: asylumed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Rumors flew: Whitemarsh Hall was a fancy concentration camp for Axis diplomatic prisoners; it was an Army asylum for the insane...
...near the Thames would open, and out would come Essayist Lamb and his sister Mary, carrying a strait jacket, and quietly crying. All Inner Temple Lane knew that meant that Mary was about to go insane again, and that Charles was taking her to the safety of the local asylum. They also knew that Charles had once been confined there himself, when family worries caused a temporary loss of his mind. The year after he was discharged, Mary suddenly seized a kitchen knife, wounded her imbecile father and stabbed her mother through the heart. Thereafter Charles made a vow never...
...Brother John had escaped from New York's Bloomingdale Asylum, gone to Virginia, where he was declared legally sane...
Town. Kusaka had been denounced by two American Legionnaires (Jeweler Edward John Gare Jr. and Dentist John E. Boland), supported by employes of the state insane asylum, members of the Hampshire County Grange, the building trades unions, and the Hampshire Gazette. Threats had been made to tar & feather Kusaka, to dump him into Paradise Pond, traditional scene of campus spooning. Tomatoes were mistakenly heaved into the house of a French professor...
...LAWFUL AUTHORITY - Manning Coles - Crime Club ($2). A prewar adventure in Nazi spy-chasing with Tommy Hambledon, hero of Drink to Yesterday, etc., sharing honors with a vengeful ex-Tank Corps officer and a debonair safecracker. Explosive action all the way, with a pitched battle in an English insane asylum to top it off. For spy-story enthusiasts, this...