Word: wassermann
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...modern history of syphilis began in 1905 when Zoologist Fritz Schaudinn of Germany discovered the specific cause of infection. One year later August von Wassermann of Germany devised his Famed blood test for diagnosing the disease. In 1910 Biochemist Paul Ehrlich, once more of Germany, after 605 laboratory experiments, finally hit upon a positive ure for syphilis. Popularly called 606 or Salvarsan, this Ehrlich remedy was technically a compound of arsenic known as arsphenamine. With the cause & cure well in hand, world medicine was fully equipped to move forcefully against one of the worst scourges of the human race...
Publisher Messner had been sold the idea by an energetic literary agent named Sanford Greenburger, whose other clients included the late Author Jakob Wassermann and Edouard Herriot. Greenburger, in turn, had been sold by the book's ghostwriter, a onetime lawyer who married a night-club singer friend of Miss Nesbit. Editor Joseph Medill Patterson of the News, who bought the serial to bolster the usual summer circulation slump, proudly announced last week that the feature had upped sales...
Agent Greenburger exulted that Evelyn Nesbit had made him more money in four months than Wassermann had in four years. Exclaimed Evelyn Nesbit, as she took a vacation from night-club work, "I represent an era!" Grumped Harry K. Thaw: "I don't even know the woman...
Died. Jakob Wassermann, 60, Bavarian-Jewish novelist (The World's Illusion, The Goose Man, Doctor Kerkhoven, Caspar Hauser, Faber, My Life as German and Jew); of angina pectoris; in Altaussee, Austria. First-ranking German writer, he produced novels that were powerful, involved, mystical. He was proscribed and exiled by German Nazidom...
...went, calling out the names of practically every modern German author with whom the outside world is familiar: Karl Marx, Jakob Wassermann, Albert Einstein, Thomas and Heinrich Mann, Lion Feuchtwanger. Arnold and Stefan Zweig, Walther Rathenau...