sanitarium
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Then he was committed to a sanitarium in 1916 and was never the same.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 29, 2025
“My father was a psychiatrist with his own sanitarium in Beacon, N.Y., where I grew up,” he said.
From New York Times • Oct. 13, 2022
A decrepit drive-in movie theater screens a 1947 noir spoof, “My Favorite Brunette,” for seemingly no other reason, possibly, than that Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour get locked up in a sanitarium.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 18, 2022
Not long after, Post opened a competing sanitarium in Battle Creek and a cereal company — based on the health foods promoted at the center that changed the course of packaged-food history.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 12, 2022
Did he do his work right there in the sanitarium, or did they rent him a little office where he could get away from all the noise?
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
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