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With biting satire and rollicking wit, the play portrays a medical charlatan who parlays a non-existent practice in a rural French village into a hospital (formerly the town's hotel) brimming with the hypochondriactic citizenry...

Author: By Anna C. Hunt, | Title: Doctor Knock | 7/18/1957 | See Source »

...says Dr. Walter Modell of Cornell in The Relief of Symptoms (W. B. Saunders Co.). The book's point: doctors must try not only to find a long-range cure but to give immediate relief. Otherwise, patients may be driven to the charlatan. Author Modell lists symptoms that should be treated at once, whether or not the basic trouble can be cured. Samples...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Block That Pain | 1/30/1956 | See Source »

FERNANDO WOOD, handsome, 6 ft. tall and every inch a charlatan. His mother, during her lying-in period in the year 1812, was reading a popular novel, The Three Spaniards, that had as its hero a derring-do lad named Fernando. She named the baby Fernando-and he spent the rest of his life trying to live up to her flamboyant hopes, e.g., he was once credited with saving three lovely maidens from a runaway stagecoach and its drunken driver. Born in Philadelphia, Wood went to New York to become an actor, but turned instead to politics and rose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SACHEMS & SINNERS AN INFORMAL HISTORY OF TAMMANY HALL | 8/22/1955 | See Source »

...have in mind, I hasten to inform you that it expects nothing of the kind. On the contrary, it demands that a poet be a gentleman, in the most significant sense of the word. Lice and low company, added to booze and borrowed breeches, are the marks of the charlatan, not the true poet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 27, 1955 | 6/27/1955 | See Source »

...book for 18 months while lawyers checked it, and friends of Lawrence were asked to rebut its accusations. Lawrence of Arabia, A Biographical Enquiry, by Novelist Richard Aldington, says without mincing words that, far from being a hero, Lawrence of Arabia was a misbegotten fraud, a perverted charlatan, a pretentious demagogue, possibly a homosexual, certainly a poseur, a liar and a plain fake. The effect, as one paper put it, was "as if someone charged that Nelson knew nothing about the sea." "Is this the end of a legend?" asked a sign printed in scarlet letters in the window...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Autopsy of a Hero | 2/14/1955 | See Source »

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