lunatic
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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
Still, there are many other, less familiar examples of delightfully inconsequential fiction, and one of the best is “The Lunatic at Large,” by the prolific J. Storer Clouston.
From Washington Post • Mar. 31, 2021
Tomas Kubinek: Certified Lunatic and Master of the Impossible The veteran vaudevillian performs; for ages 9 and up.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 26, 2017
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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