Word: maniac
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...inquisitors twice imprisoned St. Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus, on suspicion of heresy. Inquisitors also accused St. Teresa, reformer of the Carmelite Order, of canonical misconduct. Her mystic Concepts of the Divine Love brought censure. She was saved from punishment by King Philip II, morose religio-maniac...
Last week one Dewey Ede, tramp, told the Lancaster, Pa. police that he had bunked overnight with a man answering the description of the maniac. The man had said: "They call me the 3X slayer. . . . Now that my mission has been completed I will head for Harrisburg and then to New Orleans and take a boat back to the old country...
...Ansonia, Conn., Raymond C. Spang, maniac depressive, returned home to his wife and four children after escaping from a New York veterans' hospital. To celebrate the reunion he took them on a picnic to West Rock, 400-ft. precipice near New Haven. Small boys playing baseball below saw Maniac Spang lift up his son Donald, 4, pitch him over the cliff, disappear, reappear, toss down his remaining children-Helen, Lorraine, Raymond. Maniac Spang then grappled with his wife, kicked her over too. After firemen had chased and tried to reason with him, Maniac Spang poised on a ledge, lifted...
...penance for another sister, who had married a Protestant and was living in mortal sin because her children were being brought up as Protestants; for Stella, who married a divorced Protestant; for her brother, killed in the Great War without benefit of clergy. Sir Joseph became a religious maniac and his wife and only remaining daughter became his nurses...
Cycloid types: active, rubicund, round-faced; mentally jovial, sociable, tending to a maniac-depressive psychosis (cyclothymia) ; disease of the heart, blood vessels, kidneys...