Word: doctoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After the Doctor's death his widow returned to Freeport. So far as local people know Mrs. Levingston died without revealing her husband's identity...
...time of Miss Ida Tarbell's History of the Standard Oil Company, Freeporters were amazed to see the picture of their Dr. Levingston printed [in July 1905 McClure's] as the father of John D. Rockefeller. Reporters called at the home but the Doctor was old and feeble and he refused to be interviewed...
...year or two the Doctor was known to be very ill and when local newspaper men called they couldn't get any news. The Doctor died soon, his body was taken out of the house by night and buried or shipped away, from Freeport before any word of his death was given to the public...
...last week it was abundantly clear that Fanny Brice's big little husband,Billy Rose, merits some title-other than pressagents' superlatives-to indicate his uniqueness as a showman. "Fair Doctor" might serve, with the understanding that the exposition managements which seek his services are not necessarily sick but simply want the shot-in-the-arm of financial confidence which the Rose technique provides. Last year when the Texas Centennial fair got under way at Dallas, Doctor Rose was called in by Fort Worth and encouraged, with a contract paying $1,000 a day for 100 days (TIME...
When Manhattan police last week arrested a doctor, a lawyer and several solicitors and "victims" of heart disease, Dr. Wyckoff faced the amazing fact that he had been their unwitting accomplice. Chagrin and mortification are bad medicine for weak hearts, and Dr. Wyckoff's heart was weak...