Word: asylums
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Colonel did not restrain, rather he encouraged him. Morgan returned with a French bride. Soon after, Prohibition and its consequent troubles forced old Bird to set his distillery afire. Soon after that he died. Morgan opened a grocery store. Bird home became a Hebrew orphan asylum. Thus ends the pointless tale...
...Pere" Cezanne of whom the worthies of Aix said, with a shrug: "Surely he is mad." Today the sale of a Rousseau or a Cezanne is an art event. They run into five figures. America had Blakelock, painter of dark, glowing Indian encampments, who was committed to an insane asylum and kept in for the greater part of his life. It is well for the Fauves* of Paris that solicitous friends and relatives never sought court injunctions. Wild-beast Henri Matisse is still considered batty by many a staid U. S. art critic...
...reason they parted. She went to the nothingness of forgotten characters, while Mayreder went on to his second and third loves. His second love was a virgin who consoled him and was about to introduce him to her father when Stasha, the third love, recently escaped from an insane asylum, snatched him up. The story ends when Mayreder, refusing to murder Dr. Karkos after Stasha specially requests him to do so, finds Stasha herself murdered by the doctor...
...This is the first time I have ever written the facts of my little peculiarity for publication. Fortunately I was able to find out what had bitten me before it drove me into difficulties. Let us hope that the young man in Boston is not sent to an insane asylum-for I am sure a psychiatrist's services would straighten him out. Incidentally, there are two fine short stories which have been written on the subject- one, by Thomas Burke, appeared in the O'Brien anthology of Britsh Short Stories for 1923; the other, by one Frances Hammond...
...Georgians in 1925 broke into an insane asylum, lynched a demented Negro who had killed his nurse...