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...hair. Whenever his vehicle was stopped by red traffic lights or his horses veered off to graze at curb grass, the old man would stand up on the buggy seat and exhort passing citizens-workers from the foundries, the machine shops, the glass factories, attendants at the State Insane Asylum, farmers from Stark County-to vote for him as Republican nominee for Mayor. With the fervor of an evangelist promising heaven, the old campaigner in his stand-up collar and wide-brimmed black hat promised Massillon a new municipal water works and reduced water rates if he were elected...
...shoots himself. By the time Hoff gets to the police his brain has begun to give way; he will implicate nobody, and when the only witness fails to recognize him the police take him for a harmless madman. Hoff's frenzy increases; they take him to an asylum. There he goes through hell: Herr Neumann calls it "katatonic excitement." Just as he is dying Hoff manages to make what he thinks is a convincing confession. The doctor pretends to believe him, and he dies happy...
...veto to close down the last of the municipal "flop houses" for single men. Eight hundred jobless, ousted from their quarters, marched to City Hall, crowded the galleries while their leaders pleaded for continuance of relief. Those who so chose-and they were few- could go to the county asylum at Eloise where they were given food and shelter on the technicality that they were suffering from the "disease of hunger...
...directors have been faced with the apparently impossible task of finding for Actress Janet Gaynor another role in which she would be able to give an equally profitable demonstration of her appealing sweetness and charm. This sentimental romance gives Actress Gaynor a chance to flutter about in an orphan asylum, endearing herself to the authorities by telling stories to the other orphans and feeding them icecream. A youthful philanthropist (Warner Baxter) who sees her in the performance of her good turns finds her behavior so cajoling that he decides to pay her way through college. She, unaware of his identity...
...turmoil that rocked Vienna after the War Ferdinand moved as a kind of passive Bohemian, passive revolutionary. A monastic soul, he lived among orgiasts and was never shaken; love failed to touch him. His best and only friend, a Jew, became a religious maniac and graduated to an asylum. When Ferdinand went to see Nurse Barbara for the last time he was horrified that she should be so old. He ran away from her, went to seek the only society he was fitted...