Word: charlatan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...juices. Steinach became professor of physiology at the University of Vienna. There he got interested in the idea of staving off old age, and, after many years of research, devised a sex-gland operation to "reactivate" failing men, thrice "reactivated" himself. Like Freud, he was denounced as a charlatan. Like Freud, he was chased from Vienna by the Nazis. But while Freud's notoriety slowly changed to fame, Steinach's fame has been tinged with notoriety...
...also talks it. Without using cusswords he gets an effect of violent swearing from piled-up epithets, from a trick of calling people things like "low Kanakas," "foul Corsicans." He once called Billy Rose "a penthouse Cagliostro." Suspicious, Rose inquired who Cagliostro was. Said Maney: "An 18th-Century charlatan." "Say," said Rose, "that's swell...