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crime scene sex

(Int.) ! When I read about “Counter recruiters” hovering outside their offices trying to talk kids out of it I get frustrated.

crime scene sex n. sexual intercourse with a woman who is menstruating. Sexuality. Slang.

2001 [asteve5] Stern Fan Network (Nov. 20) “WOW. What a weekend!!!” (Int.) ! I saw more blood than I have ever seen in my life. Even more blood than my “crime scene” sex situations!!! 2002

Usenet: alt.sport.lasertag (Dec. 5) “Re: Dictionary of Bizarre Sexual Practices” ! Crime Scene Sex: Having sex while a woman is having her period. 2002 Usenet: alt.tasteless (Dec. 26) “Re: Dogs Die to Teach Peru’s Soldiers How to Kill” ! I read on the web site for my IUD that bleeding can occur for the first few weeks after insertion. Well, I’ve been bleeding now for 13 days. Geesh. I hope it stops soon. If not by this time next week, I’ll go get checked out. Mal’s getting tired of crime scene sex. 2004 [SG in ATL] @ Atlanta, Ga. Baseball Think Factory (June 15) “New York Yankees (40-21) at Arizona Diamondbacks (26-37) 9:35 P.M. EDT” (Int.) ! I’ve heard “crime scene sex,” which if you perform will earn you your red wings. 2005 Lisa Feuer (mysticchyna) With Camera in Hand (Md.) (Mar. 2) “I’m Getting Too Old” (Int.) ! “What in the HELL is crime scene sex?” “Sex when a woman has her period.”

cross-decking n. in a navy, the sharing of resources between two or more vessels, especially in an impromptu or ad hoc manner.

Jargon. Military.

1972 Drew Middleton N.Y. Times (Sept. 23) “NATO War Games End in ‘Victory,’ But Norway Defense Problem Stays,” p. 2 ! Cooperation was evident at sea during the exercise both in simulated air strikes and anti-submarine warfare. The Kennedy and Ark Royal participated as a team with their planes “cross-decking”—landing and refueling on each other’s flight decks. 1986 Tim Carrington Wall Street Journal

(Apr. 21) “U.S. Raid on Libya, Called Military Success, Heartens the Pentagon” ! Neither did, a Navy officer said, adding that five years ago these ships were “cross-decking” vital equipment, or trading it back and forth, because there weren’t sufficient supplies for both.

1998 Dennis J. Reimer (Political Transcripts by Federal Document Clearing House) (Mar. 12) “House Committee on National Security Holds Hearing on FY 99 National Defense Authorization Budget Request” ! Cross decking is for...when you have an officer and enlisted who possesses a specialty that is so unique and so low in numbers that when you’re operating at the type of tempo we’re operating sometimes that individual’s value is such that you will literally cross deck him or her from one ship to another.

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crunk adj. good, fine, phat. Black English. Hip-Hop. Slang. United States. The crunk in the first citation is probably a typographical error for “drunk.”

1995 Usenet: rec.music.country.western (Jan. 5) “Re: Garth Gone Over the Edge?” ! The majority of Garth’s songs are not about getting crunk, or losing your girlfriend, like most country (especially, the so called classics).] 1995 Usenet: rec.music.hip-hop (Dec. 1) “Totally Unofficial Rap-Dictionary (Bi-weekly Posting, part 1/2)” ! crunk (adj.) Hype, phat. “Tonight is going to be crunk”—??. [1996 Sonia Murray

Atlanta Journal and Constitution (Aug. 21) “Local Rappers Spelling Out Atlanta’s New Moniker,” p. D1 ! On that same MTV broadcast, TLC’s Tionne “T-Boz” Watkins introduced another addition to the Southern lingo list, “crunk”—as in “really good.” Or the way Watkins put it:

“That video was crunk.’’ 2004 [Amy Seefeldt] Poor Mouth (Ga.) (May 4) (Int.) ! He looks around the classroom and a wide smile breaks across his face. He starts enthusiastically bobbing his head and out comes, “Dang, this class is crunk!” I think what he was trying to say was that he was excited to be interested in what he was learning.

cr ypsis n. the camouflage or protective appearance of an insect or animal. Biology. Crypsis includes the stripes of a zebra that permit individuals to blend with a herd, moths that take on barklike coloring so they are indistinguishable on trees, non-venomous snakes evolved to look like venomous species, insects that look like twigs or leaves, and brightly colored frogs that falsely indicate to predators that they are poisonous.

1956 H.B.D. Kettlewell (Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences) (July 24) “A Resume of Investigations on the Evolution of Melanism in the Lepidoptera,” vol. 145, no. 920,

p. 297 ! In those insects which gain protection from mechanisms other than crypsis (warning, threat and flash coloration), or even in those cryptic moths which benefit from resembling dead leaves, the melanics are rare, recessive, sub-lethal and are probably retained by recurrent mutation. 1983 Craig Packer Science (Sept. 16) “Sexual Dimorphism: The Horns of African Antelopes,” vol. 221, p. 1191 ! The correlation between body weight and the presence of horns in females may be a consequence of the relation between body weight and antipredator behavior in antelopes: smaller species rely on crypsis or flight while large species often show direct defense against predators.

2005 Tim Cam RedNova (Feb. 23) “The Adaptive Significance of Coloration in Mammals” (Int.) ! Animals can remain concealed when their overall coloration (box 1) resembles or matches the natural background of their environment (Endler 1978). This phenomenon,

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also known as general color resemblance, includes crypsis (a type of camouflage), in which overall body color resembles the general color of the habitat, or pattern blending, in which color patterns on the body match patterns of light and dark in the environment.

cuddie n. used vocatively, friend or pal; homie, cuz. California. HipHop. Slang. United States. [The etymological information in the June 2004 cite is unverified, though it is plausible. The term probably is not related to the Scots-English cuddie ‘donkey, ass, or small horse,’ though the latter term is sometimes used as a term of coarse affection to mean ‘a person who is stubborn or obstinate.’] This term appears to originate in Vallejo, California, and is closely associated with the performers Mac Mall and Mac Dre.

[2001 Usenet: rec.music.hip-hop (July 7) “Re: The All Ugly Team of Rap Music” ! “Many times here, what I’ve considered to be thoughtful commentary based off Hip Hop history and the mores therein has been twisted to mean that I’m hating on something. Hmmmm...” “Not by me cuddy. though I disagree with you from time to time.”]

2001 Usenet: fr.rec.arts.musique.hip-hop (Dec. 4) “1 ptit cours?? lol...just 4 introducing myself...a joke” ! Cuddie: Un pote de toujours. Cf interview de Mac Mall dans The Source n80. 2004 Eric K. Arnold

East Bay Express (Calif.) (June 30) “The Politics of ‘Hyphy’ ” ! Cuddie

(n.): A close friend or relative, derived from “Cousin”; anyone from Vallejo’s Crestside neighborhood (cf. Mac Mall, Illegal Business? 1993). 2004 Eric K. Arnold East Bay Express (Calif.) (Nov. 10) “Requiem for a Mac” (Int.) ! [Mac] Dre was riding shotgun in a white van driven by Dubee, his longtime cuddie (that’s Crestside, Vallejo, parlance for “close homie”). *2004 [Christopher Abad] Ambient Empire (Calif.) (Nov. 11) “Bay Area Slang” (Int.) ! cuddie n.—Don’t ever say nigga, it’s just retarded if you’re not of the right race to use that word even if you think you know the right context. So take it

from the Crestside peeps and use this word to identify your friends. Go get keyed with your cuddies. *2004 LyricSeek (Nov. 11) “PSD

Tang & O.J. Lyrics” (Int.) ! Called up my cuddie for the spark/And he told me Gully Barbecue later on at the Crest Park.

cuff and stuff v. to (physically) place someone under arrest.

Crime & Prisons. Police. United States.

[1991 Lily Eng L.A. Times (Jan. 18)

“Complaints Prompted Sweeps, Officer Testifies,” p. 16 ! The homeless were cuffed and stuffed into patrol

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cars.... Not one of them were charged with property crimes.] 1991

Howard Sinker Star Tribune (Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minn.) (May 3) “Club Owner’s Sense of Something Off-Key Led to the Arrest of RockStar Imposter,” p. 1A ! We’re a white-collar unit—paper crimes, fraud, embezzlement. The old cuffing-and-stuffing routine doesn’t come to us very much. 1992 Maureen Harrington Denver Post (Colo.) (Mar. 11) “Junk Cars, Trashed Yards Their Prey,” p. 1F ! Last year, with the help of police, Turner got an incorrigible trash dumper “cuffed and stuffed.” 1992 Wil Haygood @ Mogadishu, Somalia

Boston Globe (Dec. 25) “On a Rooftop in Somalia, Dreams of New England,” p. 1 ! Both Somalis are handcuffed and taken away. “Cuffed and stuffed” as one of the Marines says. 1993 Carol Rust

Houston Chronicle (Tex.) (July 23) “‘Cruising for Crooks’ Cops Nail Big Time with Capers,” p. 6 ! They are “cruising for crooks,” or “fishing for felons.” Suspects are “hooked and crooked,” “cuffed and stuffed,” “nailed and jailed,” and they “ride like they hide.” 1998 Palm Beach Post (Fla.) (May 23) “DARE Lessons Worth It; Kids Remember,” p. 13A

! The days of cuffing and stuffing criminals in jail are long gone. The role of police officers has been broadened to include the title of educator. 2004 August Free Press (Waynesboro, Va.) (Dec. 14) “It Needs to Be Said” (Int.) ! Why she was then cuffed and stuffed, to borrow from the vernacular, is still up for discussion. School officials are saying that they were following state law by calling the police, who are themselves saying that they were following procedure by handcuffing her and taking her downtown.

curbstoning n. 1. the conducting of (streetside) business without a license, especially automobile sales and formerly real estate; 2. among census-takers, falsifying information about a household.

Business. Crime & Prisons. [Both senses of curbstoning come from the notion that the activity is performed on the street, at the curb.]

[1893 Washington Post (Aug. 10) “After Curbstone Brokers,” p. 7

! The regular dealers pay $50 a year license and complain that they daily encounter persons who pay no license, but watch for opportunities to make sales and frequently cause the regular brokers trouble by stepping in when sales are partly completed and claiming a part of the commission. As a first step to check this curbstone business, as it is called, the following letter was yesterday sent to the District Commissioners.] 1913 Modesto Evening News (Calif.) (Mar. 27) “Worth

! The measure regulates realty dealers by prohibiting any one from selling land as agents for another without securing a certificate of license.... The passage of this act would effectually abolish “curbstoning,” and much of the unreliable tactics employed by irresponsible real estate sharks. 1980

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Thomas Jr. N.Y. Times (B3) (Nov. 13) “Commerce Secretary Is Told to Testify on Census Count” ! One, Steven P. Glusman, a former enumerator and crew chief in Harlem, told of occupied buildings misclassified as vacant and of “curbstoning,” the practice of filling out forms without conducting the required interviews. 1988 Mark Albright St. Petersburg Times (Fla.) (Feb. 8) “Going for Good Deals on Wheels,” p. 15E ! Wholesalers prefer the state would turn its effort instead to putting so-called “curbstoners” out of business. Those are unlicensed hobbyists who park collections of used cars in vacant lots along the roadside and sell them in defiance of the law. 1990 Richard Levine N.Y. Times (Sept. 22) “Can Heads Be Counted in a Dynamic City?” p. 25 ! There are follow-up visits to housing units where residents did not send in forms or mailed back incomplete ones and field inspections of addresses declared vacant or listed as having only one occupant, a danger signal that a “curbstoning” census worker may not have taken the trouble to look inside. 2004 Stephanie Hanes Baltimore Sun (Md.) (Nov. 20) “Time on the Run, Then Time to Pay” (Int.)

! Schecter had learned how to “curbstone.” That was the street term for buying cars at auctions and from wholesalers, rolling back the odometers and then placing ads in newspapers, pretending to be the original owner.

cut heads v. to compare musical skill in an informal competition; to hold a jam session. Music. This is directly related to to cut ‘to hold an (informal) musical competition,’ which dates to at least the 1930s and possibly to the 1920s. The competition is sometimes called a cutting contest.

1977 Melvin Moore in The World of Count Basie (1980) Stanley Dance, p. 340 ! He and Charlie used to cut heads. The guy that taught Charlie everything on guitar was Chuck Richardson. 1985 Gus Johnson (Oct. 1) in Swing to Bop: An Oral History of the Transition in Jazz in the 1940s Ira Gitler, p. 24 ! We’d have jam sessions, “head-cutting” sessions.... The first thing the drummer said was he was there to “cut heads” on drums. Jesse Price, he was nowhere to be found. He was a “head cutter” around at the time. So, I was down there, and we went in a little place down there, and everybody said, “Come on. Play. Come on. Play.” I wouldn’t play until after he got drunk. After he got drunk, then I’d cut his head. 1991 Dave Tianen Milwaukee Sentinel

(Wisc.) (Oct. 30) “Blues Guitarist Rogers Masterful, Imaginative,” p. 6B

! When it comes to slide guitar, he can cut heads with any guitarslinger on the range. 2005 [Al] Diary of Guitar Guy Al (Jan. 19) “Bands I’ve Been in Part 5: The First and Second Gig” (Int.) ! I still long to be in a band that plays just good, old, classic rock and roll music. After

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playing that song, Phil asked me if I wanted to “cut heads” which is blues slang for friendly competition of dueling guitar solos.

cutie n. a boxer willing to take, and capable of withstanding, a lot of blows; an unrefined or unorthodox boxer who relies on tricks. Sports. [Perhaps from the idea of a “good chin,” meaning the boxer can take a beating to the face without being knocked out. Cute has a long-standing meaning of ‘clever,’ though less common now.]

1936 Bill McCormick Washington Post (Mar. 22) “Around the Ring,” p. X4 ! Prize-ring cuties are boxers who pay far less attention to inflicting damage on their opponents than to protecting themselves.

Some of our most successful fisticuffians have been cuties, cuties who have outfumbled good opponent after good opponent, advancing relentlessly toward the top—and leaving every arena in which they appeared badly in need of fumigation. 1940 Jack Cuddy Sheboygan Press (Wisc.) (Mar. 21) “Louis Trains Seriously for Paychek Fight on March 29,” p. 26 ! After Louis’ pathetic showing against Arturo Godoy on Feb. 9, the elderly negro with the razor tatting on his face is taking no chances against Paychek whom he described as “a cutie who ought to make Joe look pow’ful silly if he gits discautious.”

1956 Jack Hand @ NYC Reno Evening Gazette (Nev.) (Jan. 7) “Savage Draws with Lausse in Tight Bout,” p. 17 ! Eduardo Lausse, the darling of Argentina, knows today why they call Milo Savage a “cutie.” The handsome South American had to get off the floor and close with a rush to get a draw. 1970 Jake La Motta Raging Bull: My Story, p. 113

! I would have to say that Robinson was the best I fought—a cutie, fast, with all the tricks, but he could also take a punch and he could throw one. 1977 Dave Brady Washington Post (May 8) “Bobick Still Thinks of Stevenson as He Prepares for Norton Bout,” p. D4 ! Futch was reminded that Norton has other skills than being a fighter and, if he is not quite a cutie, he can box. 1986 Jack Fiske San Francisco Chronicle (Feb. 15) “Tossup Fight for Lightweight Title Tomorrow,”

p. 42 ! Crawley is a cutie, a side-to-side boxer who will stick and move, just like Anthony Fletcher, a southpaw, who holds the only win over Bramble. 1988 Michael Wilbon Washington Post (E5) (Sept. 16) “U.S. Is Uncertain If ’88 Can Bring Stars in the Ring” ! Guys all want to be punchers now, not boxers. People are calling them cutie-pies, and it’s because they’re emulating guys they see in the ring as pros....

I’ve been on them not to go into the middle of the ring doing those jive gestures. I told them, “When you do that, the referee already considers you a cutie-pie and is going to rule accordingly.” 1989 Lowell Cohn San Francisco Chronicle (Feb. 21) “Tyson Must Be Tested to Be

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Great,” p. D1 ! Both are characterized by a brutal brawling style, although Tyson, who is no cutie, is slightly more polished. 1990 Jon Saraceno USA Today (Mar. 16) “Fans the Real Winners in Taylor-Chavez Bout,” p. 12C ! Chavez is no defensive cutie, but he does have a terrific chin. 2002 Russell Sullivan Rocky Marciano: The Rock of His Times (Aug. 1), p. 83 ! Walcott’s fighting style also presented a target. He was commonly known as a “cutie.”...Some sportswriters...cast him as a stereotypical figure looking to sneak through life. Franklin Lewis, for instance, claimed that Walcott “is in the main a trickster.” Likewise, C.M. Gibbs of the Baltimore Sun maintained that he possessed “a gift of cuteness by nature.” 2005 Sean Newman RingSideReport

.com (Feb. 23) “Boxing: Final Bell Tolls for Jimmy Young” (Int.) ! He was, in boxing parlance, a “cutie,” and used this style to his advantage in gaining wins over the likes of Ron Lyle and Foreman.

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dago T n. a ribbed, white cotton tank-style undershirt; a wifebeater; a BOY BEATER. Fashion. A synonym is guinea T.

1980 English Journal (Mar.) “Revision: Yes, They Do It. Yes, You Can Teach It,” vol. 69, no. 3, p. 44 ! He lived in the ghetto in an all Italian neighborhood.... You can still picture him sort of short, stocky build, hair greased back, dago-t-shirt tattoo of a heart and an old girl friend’s name, he is always dirty. 1993 Usenet: alt.sex.stories

(June 11) “Story: Family Fun 1/3” ! She was also dressed in shorts and a white dago-T. 1993 Lisa Scottoline Everywhere That Mary Went

(Nov. 1), p. 36 ! It’s almost transparent, made from some obscure synthetic fiber, and he’s got the dago T-shirt on underneath. 1996

James Grippando Informant (Sept. 1), p. 25 ! A statuesque brunette clad in a strategically ripped dago-T scurried toward the Ford Agency.

2000 Peter Torbay Creation Myth (Feb. 1), p. 166 ! The two girl cooks made the rounds of the boat pack, looking for a bunk mate or threesome, and Look had a chance to dance belly-to-belly with one, a skinny shag blonde in torn-off parachute pants and a dago-T top.

2002 Richard Roeper Chicago Sun-Times (July 2) “Attention-Cravers Flourish as Summertime Sets In,” p. 11 ! Not to mention...the guys who wear “Dago T’s” so everyone can see the 47 tattoos covering their arms and shoulders.

dead wagon n. a vehicle used as part of a protection racket in which uncooperative distributors of milk, soda fountain syrups, or other products are forced out of business by undercutting their prices and other tactics. NYC. This term is now historical, as is the once more common meaning of dead wagon, a vehicle used as an ambulance or to transport corpses.

1909 Nebraska State Journal (Lincoln) (Dec. 26) “Milk Trust Gets Airing” (in NYC), p. 3 ! The “dead wagon” was put on the Harlem company’s trade. This wagon is run by the protective association nominally to collect milk cans, witnesses testified, but its real value lies in the canvassing of every customer of a dealer marked for destruction. His price is cut and milk is offered even below cost price to win away his customers. 1910 N.Y. Times (Jan. 8) “Fixing Milk Prices” ! Mr. Herkstroter said that he “had heard” there was sort of agreement among the milk dealers of the city not to undersell each

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other and that the “dead wagon” was run against offenders. 1929 N.Y. Times (Oct. 25) “Threats on His Life Disclosed by Groat,” p. 23 ! Allis, who said he had been without a business for the past seven months, told how he had received an offer of $100 a week from Fay to ride a “dead wagon,” distributing cheap milk to grocers served by recalcitrant dealers. 1931 N.Y. Times (Aug. 7) “Swear Syrup Ring Boasted City ‘Pull,’ ” p. 6 ! He said he was told he was “in a bottle already,” and in two weeks three-fourths of his customers, from 300 to 400, were taken away from him by the organization underselling with the “dead wagons.” 2004 Andrew Coe Gastronomica (Summer) “The Egg Cream Racket” (Int.) ! Harry Dolowich’s plans crystallized when Larry Fay hit the headlines in mid-1929.... About one hundred independent milk dealers paid thousands apiece for membership in the Milk Chain; in return Fay guaranteed to keep the price of milk high. Those who couldn’t afford the dues, or attempted to sell for less, found that wholesalers wouldn’t supply them, health inspectors would harass them, and their customers would receive visits from the “dead wagons.” These were association trucks that undersold recalcitrant dealers, causing retailers to drop their regular suppliers. After a few weeks of dead wagons, the holdouts usually had to shut their doors.

death cross n. in financial markets, a situation where long-term and short-term averages converge, seen as evidence that values will decline. Business. Jargon. Money & Finance. United States.

1994 (Reuters) (Dec. 5) “Silver Prices Tumble on Fund Sales, Chart Factors” ! A Death Cross happens when the 50-day moving average (price) turns down to cross the 200-day moving average from above.

2004 David Berman National Post (Ontario, Can.) (July 28) “Markets Fine, Except for ‘Death Cross’ ” (Int.) ! You probably won’t take any comfort in learning that a technical indicator for the Dow Jones industrial average is pointing to a so-called “death cross.” The nastysounding indicator pops up when an index’s 50-day moving average (or intermediate-term trend) dips below its 200-day moving average (or long-term trend). As the name suggests, it is often considered among technical analysts to be a bearish signal for stocks. 2005 Tomi Kilgore MarketWatch (Mar. 21) “Can Chips Help Cushion the Nasdaq?” (Int.) ! In addition to all the support, the 50-day SMA crossed above the 200-day earlier last the week. This pattern is referred to as a “golden cross” and is viewed by many as a long-term buy signal (a downside crossover is known as a “dead cross” and is a sell signal).

decleat v. in American football, to knock an opponent off his feet. Also n., decleater. Sports. United States.

1986 Mal Florence L.A. Times (Sept. 19) “USC’s 248-Pound Todd Steele Is a Real Blockbuster,” p. 7 ! Todd Steele earned the team’s

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award as decleater of the week for his blocking. A decleater is knocking an opponent off his feet. He buried some Illinois defensive backs last week. 1986 Mal Florence L.A. Times (Oct. 31) “At USC, the Big Bully on the Block Is Jeff Bregel,” p. 2 ! “You run at them with the pitch and power plays and, although you might not get the yards at first, they’ll be worn down in the third and fourth quarters to the point that they don’t feel like coming off blocks and you can decleat them.” The decleater, in USC parlance, is knocking a defensive player off his feet and onto his backside. 1991 Natalie Meisler Denver Post

(Colo.) (Jan. 8) “W. Ridge’s Hammond Picks CU,” p. 1D ! He took a 190-pound kid who lowered his shoulder on Rick and decleated him.

2004 Bill Coats St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Mo.) (Oct. 6) “Trev Faulk Makes Impact in Return to Action” (Int.) ! Faulk charged downfield, upended a would-be blocker—a “decleating,” in NFL parlance—and dropped Jamal Robertson “like nobody else was on the field,” coach Mike Martz said.

dementia Americana n. a (supposed) form of insanity, leading to violence, that comes over a man who believes his home or family has been violated. Crime & Prisons. Health. Law. United States.

1907 Chicago Daily Tribune (Apr. 10) “Unwritten Law Thaw’s Last Hope” (in NYC), p. 1 ! “Ah, gentlemen,” said Mr. Delmas, dramatically, turning to the alienists who testified for the prosecution, “if you desire a name for this species of insanity let me suggest it—call it dementia Americana. That is the species of insanity which makes every American man believe his home to be sacred; that is the species of insanity which makes him believe the honor of his daughter is sacred; that is the species of insanity which makes him believe the honor of his wife is sacred; that is the species of insanity which makes him believe that whosoever invades his home, that whosoever stains the virtue of this threshold, has violated the highest of human laws and must appeal to the mercy of God, if mercy there be for him anywhere in the universe.” 1908 Wayne County Journal (Mo.) (Jan. 30) “Local Happenings” (Int.) in MOWAYNE-L (June 22, 2004) Sharon

“Local Happenings—Thursday, January 30, 1908 Wayne County Journal”

! The County court met Monday to pass on the sanity of Tony Hood. In the court’s opinion the case was found to be a bona fide case of insanity, unalloyed with “Dementia Americana” exaggerated ego or any other newfangled phase of insanity, and the boy was ordered to the Farmington asylum. Sheriff Barrow accompanying him to that place Tuesday morning. 2002 Film Quarterly (Summer) “Headline Hollywood” (Int.) ! When Thaw’s attorney made the case that his client had been acting out of a condition he termed dementia Ameri- cana—a legitimate rage triggered by the desecration of a man’s home—a powerful nexus of concerns with national identity, patri-

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