Word: quack
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great body of respectable medical practitioners, the allopaths (as distinguished from the promoters of all sorts of strange and often quack cures and methods), have it as one of the strictest items of their code of ethics that they will not advertise their services in the public press or by any other commercial means. Any doctor who does so is regarded by them as beyond the pale, probably a quack...
...Mexico City, one Islas Escandon, dentist, piled 400,000 human teeth in his window, advertised in glaring posters the ease with which he extracted molars, eyeteeth. A rabble, styled by approving officials as "a group of students," questioned patients of Islas Escandon, then advanced upon the quarters of this quack, drove him forth, shoveled his 400,000 teeth upon an ash-heap...
...connection with some comments on Mr. Bernard Macfadden, world-renowned Physical Culturist and quack-exposer, published in a recent issue of TIME, you refer to the public as a "hydra-headed Amphibian" and as "that Beast." Will you allow me to observe th?t the use of such terms is in extremely bad taste and that the author of them deserves severe criticism...
...Many omissions of relevant evidence and some apparent misrepresentations of the evolution theory and its supporters may well be due to Mr. Bryan's unfamiliarity with the facts in the case. A lawyer who does not know law or a doctor who has not studied medicine is a quack and subject to legal control; even a high school teacher must be duly certificated. Is there not at least a moral obligation that a man professing authoritative leadership on evolution should first familiarize himself with the subject?"-Dr. Edward L. Rice, Ohio Wesleyan University (Methodist...
...joints, elbows and exposed spindle shanks, his trousers being generally a foot too short in the leg. He was so like a scarecrow that one almost expected him to creak in the wind ... his long lank hair fell straggling to his shoulders, giving him the look of a quack or a gypsy." "In class, when it pleased him to attend, he was the worst-behaved man of my acquaintance...