Word: doctorings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ugly contest between Clarence Wiley ("Doc") Spears and Walter Ernest ("Little Doctor") Meanwell for the athletic directorship of the University of Wisconsin started in 1932. That autumn Wisconsin's board of regents forced the athletic council to bring Spears on from Oregon to be head football coach. He accepted the job at a lower wage than he was getting at Oregon because alumni groups had promised him the athletic directorship within two years. In 1934 President Glenn Frank, apparently worried over Spears' reputation as an advocate of "bigtime" football, used his deciding vote on the board of regents...
Last autumn Wisconsin had a disastrous football season, winning one game, losing seven. There were rumors that Coach Spears would be fired. After the season, 220-lb. Captain-elect John Golemgeske of Waukesha cornered Director Meanwell, said he represented 18 squad members who desired Spears' dismissal. The "Little Doctor" told him to present it in writing. Soon afterward, the football squad celebrated its poor season at a local roadhouse. Golemgeske dragged his supporters into the men's room, put the question to them. Seen there by an assistant coach, he was taken before Spears who plied him with...
This kind of hanging loosens up adhesions in the neck, breaks up new bone formations which press upon nerves, relieves spasms in the neck muscles and enables patients to walk with their heads held nimbly up. Too orthodox and young a doctor to criticize his medical colleagues forthrightly, Dr. Hantlig sassed them obliquely: "Such cases [of pain in the neck] are frequent and they represent in all probability a substantial proportion of the patients who migrate to chiropractors and others after they have been baked at length for arthritis of the shoulder. . . . Some of the commonly called neuritis in elderly...
...Francisco doctor and his wife last month ate some underdone steaks from a northern California bear which had chewed a hog which had gobbled a rat which had gnawed at a hog whose flesh contained larvae of a tiny round worm called Trichinella spiralis. In consequence of that series of meals, the doctor and his wife, their tongues, larynges, eyes, flanks and diaphragms thickly infested with larvae of the worms, last week were undergoing the excruciating anguish of trichinosis...
...though Davos boasts a fine meteorological observatory, he was not interested in the weather. After hanging around town for three days, he asked his way to the home of Dr. Wilhelm Gustloff, physicist at the Davos observatory. Bustling Frau Gustloff ushered him into the study. When the Doctor rose to greet him, David Frankfurter whipped out a pistol, sent five bullets crashing into his body. Wilhelm Gustloff died instantly...