lunatic
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At the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, where they wind up, the real-life Dr. Thomas Story Kirkbride ran a program for the mentally ill that he called “moral treatment.”
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 31, 2023
In a Somerset town a small group of volunteers are slowly and sensitively revealing the stories of those who lived at the Somerset and Bath Pauper Lunatic Asylum.
From BBC • Feb. 26, 2023
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone — For centuries, they called the foreboding building on a hill above this capital city the Kissy Lunatic Asylum.
From New York Times • Apr. 11, 2022
Mixing Grand Guignol theatricality and nonstop comic-book action, the Frost and Moray adventures make for delightfully kitschy reading, as one would expect given titles like “Bride of the Rats” and “The Lunatic Plague.”
From Washington Post • Feb. 23, 2021
“You didn’t tell us where that maniac’s escaped from! What use is that? Lunatic could be coming up the street right now!”
From "Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban" by J.K. Rowling
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