Word: amnesiaize
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Henry-Behave!-Amnesia and the essential humanity of a prig...
Henry-Behave!-A mild farce about amnesia and an inhibited gentleman...
Henry-Behave. Lawrence Langner, a director of the Theatre Guild, and, therefore, supposedly a gentleman of taste, has just issued his mild endorsement of the cake-eater. Henry Wilton, pompous, ultra-puritanical pillar of the community suffers an attack of amnesia. With all inhibitions medically banished into oblivion, he proceeds to bedazzle himself in loud golf clothes, flirt with boarding house girls, reel off on a drunken spree, precipitate a brawl in the country club, and in other ways prove himself at heart a real, human personality. As a result of this exhibition, he finds himself, on recovery, a nominee...
...Amnesia," said the doctor kindly; "amnesia," said the internes excitedly; "amnesia" pityingly said the nurse who undressed her, bathed her and put her tenderly...
From now on, the story runs riot. The War ends, Peter returns home, his father relents, he marries Georgina amid a swirl of roses and Rolls-Royces. But something that (to the reader's slightly puzzled intelligence) seems like an attack of amnesia, causes her to drive off in her new Rolls on their wedding night?while her unsuspecting husband sits by the moonlit lake and meditates, and never misses her till morning...