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
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
First opened in 1908 as Cardiff Lunatic Asylum, the hospital has been falling into ruin since it closed its doors to patients in 2016.
From BBC • Dec. 13, 2021
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
It makes me put my clothes on wrong, and scramble the service, and eat incorrectly— third priest: Lunatic priests are bad business.
From "Grendel" by John Gardner
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