Word: docs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Doc S. E. Embry is a stoop-shouldered, middle-aged practitioner with greying hair. Onetime, 1907-08, he was intimately connected with government prosecution for using the mails to defraud against "The Boston Medical Institute" and "The Belleview* Medical Institute" of Chicago. These were one and the same firm, using the same office suite but with entrances on different streets to divert suspicion, an oldtime quack stunt. Old Doc Embry uses the same method?"Dr. Embry" on the door of a squalid office for Negroes, "The Parker Health Institute" on a communicating office door for whites. His gyp game...
...Doc. R. C. McCarthy, stocky, smooth faced, of medium height, heavy, spectacled and prematurely grey, sat looking at the patient, asked a few questions, declared he suffered from "prostatic trouble" curable by "electric treatment" for $100, $20 down. He operates the "House of Health," where in a demurely yet impressively equipped waiting room a buxom, black-eyed, black-haired demoiselle welcomes the "lobs." But they work for H. L. Giles and August E. Kroening, who syndicate their institutions with branches in Manhattan, Jersey City, Newark, N. J., Kansas City, Montreal and Detroit. They have been harried about...
...first time entitles the doer to at least a modicum of notice. Last winter two wealthy young San Franciscans decided that they would become the first U. S. composer and librettist to have an opera which was their joint work produced in Europe. They were aided by "Doc" Leahy, of the old San Francisco Tivoli, in their eventually successful efforts to have their opera, Fay-Yen-Fah, produced by the Monte Carlo Casino Opera Company. Last week these two young men were "showered with real orchids" as their opera had its U. S. premiere in San Francisco...
...afford to give the time necessary for such compensation, and I am mindful of the fact that it takes more than a little money nowadays to live, and that amateurism does not, and certainly should not, provide a competitor with funds to acquire daily wearing apparel, pay doc- tor's bills, dentist's bills, and other non-athletic living necessities, let alone the luxuries of the home, travel and entertainment...
...THIRTY YEARS OF BILLIARDS-Willie Hoppe. Edited by J. E. Crozier-Putnam ($2.00). * Other famed brothers in sport are: Robert and Emil Meusel, Stanley and Harry Coveleskie, Jesse and Virgil Barnes, James and "Doc" Johnston, baseballers; Howard and Robert Kinsey, tennis players; Stanislaus and Wladek Zbyszko, wrestlers; Benjamin and Joseph Leonard, Peter and John Zivc, Thomas and Michael Gibbons, boxers...