Word: quack
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...learn how extensive Chicago quack operations were, the Tribune editors picked out a husky reporter, one F . . . W . . ., 30 years old, 220 lb in weight, 6 ft. 1 in. in height; had him examined by such highly reputed physicians as Dr. Louis E. Schmidt and Dr. Eugene Laurence Hartigan. They tapped him, sounded him, made Wassermann tests, pronounced him "an exceptionally healthy young man." Not so the charlatans. His reports on their personalities, their diagnoses and their cures he made unabashedly, and the Tribune bravely dealt with seven of them last week...
...intimately connected with government prosecution for using the mails to defraud against "The Boston Medical Institute" and "The Belleview* Medical Institute" of Chicago. These were one and the same firm, using the same office suite but with entrances on different streets to divert suspicion, an oldtime quack stunt. Old Doc Embry uses the same method?"Dr. Embry" on the door of a squalid office for Negroes, "The Parker Health Institute" on a communicating office door for whites. His gyp game is to thrill and mystify the patient by the intimated cure-all powers of the Xray. His staff found...
...Baptist publications: "The Baptist papers, like the churches and the 'benevolences,' are chronically hard up. . . . [They carry ads of] Peruna, Mrs. Winslow's Syrup, Walker's Prostate Specific, and other such quack remedies . . . flaming editorials praising the quackeries of the late Dr. Albert Abrams of San Francisco. . . . Some of the advertising, especially in the South, comes very close to the borders of the obscene. . . . Authorized Life of William Jennings Bryan . . . Prostitutes. . . . But in general the Baptists do not seem to be readers. The articles in the denominational papers, chiefly by pastors, are devoid of literary allusiveness, and are often illiterate...
...lousy momzer, I don't know why I ever married you. I'm going back to . . ." "Eddie Tilyou and his big-time melody boys will broadcast by special request 'Culoombia, the Chem of the . . ." "Quack, quack . . ." "Bryant 1840 . . ." "I guess you would like a girl to bow down and kiss your dirty foot whenever you treat her mean, but just lemme tell you . . ." "The shrine of each patriot's devotion . . .',' "Quack, quack . . ." "Not Bryant 1480! How many times should I say . . ." "If you ever lay your little finger on me again...
Then the Colonel was called to the stand. Fighting mad, he spoke softly: "I have been on trial, all morning with convicted bootleggers, a quack doctor, a disgruntled ex-road foreman, an ex-ranger with a bad record, and other men with personal grievances testifying against me through the convenient method of leading questions from a man who assembled this group of malcontents. I appreciate the opportunity to make a statement in behalf of the administration of the park...