Word: aphasia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Signs. Ways of recognizing old age: headaches, vertigo, apoplectic attacks, convulsions, sudden and profound lapses of memory, confusion, restlessness, aphasia, physical disability, inability to assimilate new ideas (misoneism, neophobia). (Menas S. Gregory of Bellevue Hospital, Manhattan...
...Jimmie Gubbins, reported dead by the indefatigable War Office, returns to Lunnon with his American pal, equally dead, and wanted besides in America for embezzlement (of which, strange to say, he is really guilty); with them comes a third pal, the unknown and unknowing Spoofy, a victim of gas aphasia with a penchant for "lifting". From this combination, aided by convenient coincidences, innumerable droll situations arise, genuinely comic, of the type not wit but humor. In fact the play depends little on its lines; it is from character, incident, and pure stage effect that the author, Frederick Isham, has gleaned...