Word: doc
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sports writers, but it is doubtful if his pen has ever been sharper. In his current piece, it is not what he says but what he implies that bites. His subject is Maguire, an imaginary person, typical of the successful and famous football coach. Everything that he says about "Doc" Maguire is most flattering...
...Believe it or not," as Mr. Tunis explains, "Doc gets only $6000 a year from the college, exactly the sum a full professor receives. This is frequently mentioned by the college authorities when some one outside twits them about the Doc." But it is not generally known that he also gets a percentage of the football profits, and "last season they were slightly above half a million...
Leaning from the control car Lieut.-Commander Herbert V. ("Doc") Wiley, executive officer, who looks astonishingly like Herbert Hoover, speaks into a microphone leading to loudspeakers on the mooring-mast: "Everybody weigh off!" The ground crew of 250 slack their lines a trifle that officers may gauge the vessel's trim. Water ballast spills out here and there until the big ship rides evenly. Then from Commander Wiley: "Stand by to up ship!"-and his work for the moment is over. Within the control car he motions to his skipper, Lieut.-Commander Charles Emery ("Rosie") Rosendahl, that...
...question the Court of Appeals had ruled he must answer: "Did you bribe any public official?" Replied Dr. Doyle: "No." Mr. Seabury and the Republican Committeemen were astonished by this answer, suspected Horse Doctor Doyle of committing perjury. Though the committee voted he was still in contempt, "Doc" Doyle's lawyers got him out of jail on a writ of habeas corpus...
...himself up as a special pleader before the Board of Standards & Appeals. Such a position requires no legal experience. Word soon got round that if you wanted to locate a garage in a restricted neighborhood or construct a building out of unapproved material, the man to "see" was "Doc" Doyle. By 1930. aged 60, the genial little man had acquired nine children and more than a million dollars...