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Updated: June 1, 2025
What do you think happens then? He thinks hard for a spell, rolls his eyes, and says: 'Search me. I've forgotten. 'Know where he lives? I asks him. 'Nope, he says. "Can you beat it! Seems to me if I had a kink in my coco that big I'd phone to an alienist and have myself measured for a strait-jacket. Gee! You meet all kinds, going around the way I do." Kirk laughed and lit a cigarette.
After a time he yawned, rolled over on his side, and inspected an angry- looking sore just above his hip. This he proceeded to cleanse and dress by the crude methods men in solitary must employ. I recognized the sore as one of the sort caused by the strait-jacket. On my body, at this moment of writing, are hundreds of scars of the jacket.
He glanced at it, noting that a Professor Meinzer, formerly of City College, had appeared at Bellevue, asking to be put away in a padded cell, preferably with a strait-jacket. The Professor had only explained that he considered himself dangerous to society. No other reason was found. Professor Meinzer had been doing private work, believed to relate to his theory that....
"You observed my smile. You remember we had a little wager. Don't bother to unlace me first. Just give the Bull Durham and cigarette papers to Morrell and Oppenheimer. And for full measure here's another smile." "Oh, I know your kind, Standing," the Warden lectured. "But it won't get you anything. If I don't break you, you'll break all strait-jacket records."
Senator Evarts argued that the existing law was incompatible with executive responsibility, for "it placed the Executive power in a strait-jacket." He then pointed out that the President had not the legal right to remove a member of his own Cabinet and asked, "Is not the President imprisoned if his Cabinet are to be his masters by the will of the Senate?"
There were punishments, no doubt, for infractions of these rules reduced rations, the strait-jacket, perhaps stripes he scarcely knew what. He felt disconsolate, grim, weary. He had put up such a long, unsatisfactory fight.
Yet, on either of these days, had I been in the private institution which I had recently left, I should have occupied a cell and worn a strait-jacket. The assistant superintendent, who received me upon my arrival, judged me by my behavior. He assigned me to one of two connecting wards the best in the hospital where about seventy patients led a fairly agreeable life.
The growth of craftiness for the forwarding of a single idea became uncanny in its purposeful efficiency and a morbid pleasure to its possessor. Eben seemed outwardly to have lain aside his strait-jacket of bigotry and to have become singularly humanized. One afternoon Stuart and Conscience went for an all-day sail.
"I was on that hill." "Quite in the back row, eh? But her brother was well up to the front. Did you see him come out on us?" "Yes, I did." "Did he ever strike you as being crazy this brother of hers?" "I can't say that he ever did." "I dare say not. I always thought him sane enough until to-day, but you can take it from me that either he or I ought to be in a strait-jacket.
Possibly it was overdone; but if any one in the audience had seen such a young person enter his or her room unexpectedly, and uttering such unaccountable sounds, he or she would most assuredly have rung for a doctor and a cab, and for a strait-jacket if such a thing were to be had in the neighbourhood.
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