Word: quack
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...ZOOLOGICAL CLUB. "Effect of Radium upon Animal Growth and Structure." Mr. E. D. Congdon. "Quack-Grass, a Host of the Hessian Fly." Mr. Hayhurst. Zoological Laboratory, 4th floor, Room...
...made no progress in his courtship. Meanwhile the country Luce had come to London after Chartley, and, disguised as a page, she overheard the plans for the wedding. She then engaged herself as a boy in the service of the Wise-Woman, who carried on a flourishing trade in quack medicines, enchantments and fortune telling. Chartley had incurred the displeasure of the Wise-Woman, and she on learning from the supposed boy that the he was to wed Luce at her house on the next day, planned to repay him for his insults. She conceived the idea of disguising...