Word: dementia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Committed to the State asylum for the insane at Elgin, Ill., was William Rockne, 19, son of Notre Dame's late Football Coach Knute Kenneth Rockne. His disease: dementia praecox. At Carlton, Saskatchewan, Author John Buchan, First Baron Tweedsmuir, Governor General of Canada, was crowned with feathers, draped in caribou skin, made a member of the Cree tribe, under the name Okemow Otataowkew ("Teller of Tales...
Last week a deaf old lady checked out of a small hotel in Lewisburg, Pa. after seven months of seclusion there, returned quietly to Manhattan. Remaining in seclusion unrelieved was her 69-year-old husband, Joseph Wright Harriman. onetime socialite banker, whose exploits in dementia during his criminal trial three years ago scarcely equaled those by which he put his Harriman National Bank & Trust Co. into the red and finally into receivership in 1933. As prison librarian at Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary, Convict Harriman had ample opportunity last week to read in the Press of the embarrassments his bank caused...
...over his head, the second time into the madman's body. On the way to the hospital, the man, still violent, shouted "Fitzgerald." Weaker he whispered "Fitzgerald" once more before he died. He was Morris Fitzgerald, 36, sometime convict and escaped inmate of an insane asylum, suffering with dementia praecox...
...March 1933 the American Chemical Society, of which he was 1919 president, gave Dr. Bancroft its prized Nichols Medal "for his work on the application of colloid chemistry to physiological problems, particularly insanity, in which he has advanced scientific proof that dementia and drug addiction are curable chemically...
...geologist to devote all his time to paleontology. He has dug up hundreds of fossils on five continents, including the best extant specimens of a nodosaur (or epinodosaur), and a hoplitosaur, two rare species of armored, thick-set dinosaurs. He considers his enthusiasm "a form of dementia...