Word: gaucher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Faculty of Arts and Sciences, ever heard of John Harvard's contemporary John Milton, who said: "I call therefore a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skillfully, and magnanimously all the offices both private and public, of peace and war." George K. Gaucher...
Later, in 1951, while working with Dr. Sidney Farber, professor of Pathology at Harvard, Dr. Uzman isolated and described the lipoprotein in Gaucher's disease, an anemia of the spleen that runs in families and is particularly common among Jews...
...Uzman showed that analysis of fat-like lipid, kerasin, as performed over the previous 40 years, was not enough to explain the peculiar Gaucher cells, sign of the disease. It is also necessary to analyse the deranged metabolism of cell proteins, believed to have an abormal affinity for kerasin. Kerasin is stored in the spleen and causes its enlargement, as well as enlargement of lymph nodes...
...Gabrielle was greedy and sent some of her girls into service overseas in Casablanca, Dakar and Damascus, thus qualifying as a white-slave trafficker. Last week plump, double-chinned Gabrielle Gaucher was fined $3,600 and deprived of civil rights for ten years. Her husband Marcel, a gay boulevardier who had lived a happy, dronelike existence on his wife's earnings, could not stand the publicity, and killed himself...
...life than is the case with common prostitutes, and more tolerance for the call girl from police and magistrates. In concluding his essay, Judge Sacotte gave generous and unstinted credit for this advance in "de luxe prostitution, perfected and modernized by the employment of the telephone," not to Gabrielle Gaucher but to its true innovator...