Word: pocus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...advertiser had a hocus-pocus "cure" for varicose veins. That led enterprising Mr. Baker into the "cancer-cure" business. Receipts from using the "cures" of two other quacks-Harry M. Hoxsey of Muscatine and Charles O. Ozias of Kansas City-started with $1,380 for October 1929. reached $75,232 for June 1930. But the A. M. A.'s weekly Journal (for doctors) and monthly Hygeia (for everybody) began flaying Quack Baker. His receipts dropped until last January they were only $7,008. He lost the license for his broadcasting station KTNT. Iowa enjoined him from practicing medicine without...
...getters and promoters) are having less and less success in the eastern schools at their self imposed jobs of routing the students out of their dormitories to burn red fire in the square and mutter gibberish in union the night before a so called big game. This Medieval hocus-pocus known as "Getting Behind the Team," is being left behind in favor of an attitude which, in itself, may prove the most effective balance wheel to the sport. The undergraduates to whom I have spoken no longer regard their football teams as something akin to the defenders of the Grail...
...witch ride madly astride her broomstick, pausing only to tickle the nose of a raggedy boy waiting to be fattened and baked into gingerbread. The climax came when his yellow-haired sister saved him with the wave of a magic juniper-branch and a hocus-pocus formula, when together they pushed the witch into the oven stoked for them. For children no moment of the performance approaches this supreme one in Engelbert Humperdinck's Hansel und Gretel...
...defense, organized the American Bureau of Chiropractic. Dr. C. P. Eifertsen, bureau vice president, is now serving a three-months sentence at the Richmond County Jail for practicing medicine without a license. Chiropractic "straights" belong to the Bureau. It excludes "mixers." "Mixers" are those practitioners who mix hocus pocus with chiropractic...