Word: m
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quack." He defined the word as "a person who makes extravagant or blatant claims as to his own ability in the field of science or medicine," pointed out that Brinkley had never submitted a description of his rejuvenating operations or drugs to a recognized scientific publication, declared that A. M. A. chemists had found Brinkley's prize rejuvenation medicine to consist of water, a dye (methylene blue) and a little hydrochloric acid, none of which possesses any rejuvenating properties...
...last week, Clark Gable got into his cream-colored roadster, picked up Carole Lombard and drove 350 miles east to Kingman, Ariz. There they bought a license from an awestruck clerk named Viola Olsen, and proceeded to the home of a Methodist Episcopal minister named Kenneth M. Engle. In the presence of his wife and a high-school principal named Cate, who later defined their behavior as "lovey-dovey," Mr. Engle made Clark Gable and Carole Lombard man & wife. Gable wore blue, Lombard grey...
HOLMES OF THE BREAKFAST-TABLE-M. A. DeWolfe Howe-Oxford Universify Press...
President Conant will lead the exodus from Cambridge which will include William H. Claflin Jr., Treasurer; George H. Chase, Dean of the University; James M. Landis, Dean of the Law School; Henry W. Holmes, Dean of the School of Education, George F. Plimpton, Associate Dean of the College; Dr. David M. Little, Secretary to the university, and other members of the faculty...
...Irving M. Clark '41, the man who first began gulping goldfish on a big-time scale, is considering returning to his goldfish wars again this summer as a result of an offer to tour the country as a circus freak and take on all local title claimants in one-night stands...