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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...
...germ of a smart, satirical idea died somewhere in the transposition of this play from the author's brain to the manuscript, to the stage. Instead of provocative and shrewd sophistication, it offered nothing but lifeless conversation. Such accomplished performers as Margalo Gillmore and Grant Mitchell seemed seriously...
Bubonic and pneumonic plague are forms of the same disease. The bubonic germ is a surly one that lives in slatternly wild creatures, insects, rodents and in the filthy shambles of great cities. In those places where nature fights civilization and both lose, the plague waits, curling its haunches. From China, in 1900, it came first to San Francisco; since then from Mexico, riding on fleas that ride on Mexicans that ride on burros...
...matter of fact, (newspapers, such as The Chicago Tribune, to the contrary), pneumonic plague is transmitted chiefly from man to man by sneezing, coughing, spitting. It is only distantly related to the vermin-carried germ. And the pneumonic-not the bubonic-plague attacked Los Angeles...
...club, the spear, the bow and arrow, the gun, the bomb, the gas, the germ...