...And to think, brainstorming has become just another empty term used by empty people.

There were two trials. At the first, the jury was deadlocked: at the second, pleading insanity, Evelyn testified. Thaw's mother told Evelyn that if she would testify that Stanford White abused her and that Harry only tried to protect her, she'd receive a divorce from Harry Thaw and one million dollars in compensation. She did just that, and performed in court wonderfully: he was found not guilty by reason of insanity. Evelyn got the divorce, but not the money. One of the defense lawyers coined an expression that has passed into the language when he said that Thaw had a "brainstorm."
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_K._Thaw