Word: asylumed
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...Manhattan life in tinsel musical comedy caricature. The obstreperous Ray Dooley (Mrs. Bowling) makes parts of it hilariously amusing with her squalling childlike tactics. There is one terrible moment when an actor representing Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith (whom the show booms for President) makes a speech to an orphan asylum...
...defeat, he gave a cry. Cursing and weeping, he threw down his gun. Officers talked in soothing tones, and then, because he refused to walk, dragged John Early to a car in which he must begin the journey back to a hated house, full of despairing creatures, a sad asylum...
...country; but that "he portrays a type of Scotchman not found in the heavens above, on the earth beneath, or in waters under the earth." Waxing emphatic, Councilman Gilzean cried: "If that type of Scotchman ever went about Scotland in the flesh, we would pack him off to an asylum...
...private institutions may retain the task they have long ago assumed and steadily followed, that of proving to those who will attend the proof, that the knowledge of one thing in its truest light involves knowing many things, and may retain, as its province likewise, the duty of giving asylum to the speculative mind and a more protecting harbor than even highly experimental industries can give to the scientific mind in its most abstract researches...
Only by having him recite and transfer the jingles to "the poor, unthinking students" of a university did Mark Twain save his friend (he said) from the asylum...