Word: amnesia
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...proved that Hindenburg was suffering heart-burns when his famous line was smashed. And in American political life things have come to such a pass that the old stock alibis are quite ineffective; but by replacing them with pleas of wholesale dyspepsia and accounts of the ravages of amnesia, American politicians may now employ a little scientific venisimilitude in order to stave off the disapproval of their constituents for another term...
...mysterious disappearance recalls a similar occurrence just a year ago, when V. G. Clapp 2G. swam up the river from Weld boathouse on the afternoon of May 17, and was not seen again until Jane 19, when he returned to college. Clapp turned out to be a victim of amnesia, with no recollection of his experiences during his month's absence...
...Breaking Point. An often impressive transcription of Mary Roberts Rinehart's book and play about amnesia, though it will leave the average witness at times in the same mental haze as the hero. Matt Moore gives a convincing portrayal of the young man who kills a rival in a sordid brawl, forgets his past and achieves respectability, only to have the long arm of the law reach out to yank him back to degradation. Nita Naldi as the siren who twice tries to wreck him is too corpulent to vamp anyone but a Turkish sultan...
...victim of amnesia who remembered he had a bad time...
About 1900 a young man not long out of the university had an attack of amnesia (loss of memory occurring in some forms of insanity) and wandered about the country suffering harrowing vicissitudes for three years. In time he recovered and returned to his family and to normal life. But he retained a vivid memory of his experiences, set them down in a manuscript, resolved to turn them to account for human welfare. William James and a few other far-sighted gentlemen encouraged...