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Their life was a succession of frustrations. Leora's effort for a child was abortive. Arrowsmith's country practice in her home town - Wheatsylvania, N. D. - was satisfying (despite her puny relatives) until he indulged in research to cure a cattle-plague gratuitously, and was over cautious concerning a smallpox scare. The research aroused unbearable little professional jealousies. The pox turned out chicken, not small, and left raillery behind it. So again he cleared out, seeking his chance with a very modern, very shrewd private clinic in Chicago. Such clinics deal in fads, however, not in facts...
Heaven opened. Arrowsmith had every facility, quiet, no interference. He had Gottlieb and one Terry Wickett, just such a lie-hunter as was Arrowsmith. He raced at his work, struck an unknown germ-eater, "Phage," and paused on the threshold of fame to establish scientific certainty. Came another blow. McGurk Institute, founded to cleanse a grubby name, could not risk loss of publicity. He was ordered to publish his find at once. He refused. A Frenchman found Phage, got the publicity. Arrowsmith was in bad odor at McGurk, even at McGurk, supposedly one of the three strongholds Science...
...hunters! Gottlieb was decrepit, Leora gone. Arrowsmith tried life as the scientist husband of a rich widow. No good. Finally he buried himself in the Vermont woods, tracking down bacteriological verities with Terry Wickett. As the world saw it, he had "failed...
...Author. Sinclair Lewis - son and grandson of doctors, onetime reporter, now 40 and the Nation's semiofficial castigator, - may be somewhat rosily seen as he has projected himself in Lie-Hunter Arrowsmith. Yale made no pet of him when he matriculated from Sauk Center, Minn. ; but, after he wrote Main Street, his Yale class asked him to speak at a reunion. Lewis did speak - a brief, baleful curse upon that class...
...ARROWSMITH - Sinclair Lewis - Harcourt. Brace...