If you describe someone's behaviour as maniacal, you mean that it is extreme, violent, or very determined, as if the person were insane. adj. (disapproval) He was almost maniacal in his pursuit of sporting records..., She is hunched forward over the wheel with a maniacal expression.
It was his way of telling his friend he knew he was dying. It was his way of saying good-bye to him. In May of this year Gary Cooper, 60, died of cancer. Hemingway was too ill to attend the funeral, although he was an honorary pallbearer. Less than two months later, 62-year-old Papa, despondent and depressed by Coop's death, shot and killed himself.
Cooper, 60, died Tuesday October 5, 2010 at the University of Kentucky Medical Center in Lexington, KY.Funeral services were 2pmET, Saturday, October 9, 2010, at McKinney-Brown Funeral Home, 722 Campbellsville ST, Liberty, KY, by Bro. Marvin Lane and Bro. Junior Fields. Burial was at Barnetts Creek Cemetery. Patricia Ann Cooper, Casey Co., KY (1949-2010)Born in Casey County on Sunday, November 13, 1949, she was the daughter of the late Cecil and Grace Allen Burton.