Word: doc
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Watch Out for Maggots. Here he had a public-relations job to do, and Auto Salesman Hoffman handled it well. He chatted with the right Congressmen. He listened as much as he talked. He shook hands with Chairman Charles ("Doc") Eaton of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Congressman Eaton greeted him warmly: "I'm glad you took this job." But, Eaton warned: "There'll be maggots crawlin' over you every minute of the time...
...pail of water and said: "We gettin' good, real good, ain't we? Gimme that bottle." He took a swig: "Ahhh-damn good. Lemon juice, honey and brandy. Warms up the body. I don't drink though, really I don't. Here, pass it around, Doc...
...sore at nobody. I just wanna fight. Somebody give me a reaming. Whoever got it in for me, I don't care. Was you a juvenile delinquent when you was nine? Well, I was. Never had no breaks. All I wanna do is fight. Hey Doc, ya see me fight...
Said black-tied widower Rines: "I want it determined whether a doctor can lie to you.... Medical ethics requires that doc-tors are responsible to one another. I want a ruling on that. . . . Doctors are always passing the buck...
...boys in Doc Evans' jazz band blew a final chord and then drifted from the stand for an intermission smoke. As the jump fans settled down to their beers, a stooped and droopy-eyed old Negro clambered up to the piano behind the chromium bar. He began a rolling boogie bass -not fast and tinny like most boogie, but low and underneath the deep, dark blues his right hand played. He played softly, staring out into the blue smoke as if he didn't care whether anyone listened. Not everyone did. But the oldtimers around Chicago...