Word: quack
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...publication known as Physical Culture ... is an outstanding example of the money that is to be made from catering to ignorance and furnishing a contact between the quack and his victims...
...Doctor. Medical practise he began as assistant to a formidable creature, half lunatic, half genius, half doctor, half quack, who later turned against him and cunningly contrived to leave him stranded practically penniless in Portsmouth. A minute practice and an occasional short story kept him alive. At about this time, the Sherlock Holmes stories began to be written...
Professor Miethe is no quack or sensationalist, but a well-known and conservative scientist. He manufactured his gold only in infinitesimal quantities by passing an electric current through a mercury lamp for periods up to 200 hours. He estimated that at this rate the manufactured gold would cost $2,164,000 a pound, against its currency rate of $331 a pound. Unless Professor Miethe's method of gold production is improved upon, it is apparent that his discovery will have no commercial value or significance...
...OUTSIDER-Lionel Atwill and Katherine Cornell vibrantly give a medical quack a dose of his own medicine...
...Among us politicians the quack and the trickster still flourish and the printed word is their most powerful weapon. Would that you (the publishers) adopt some schedule rates for such political advertising and would decline to publish the appeal of the liar and charlatan. Close your columns to the claptrap and buncombe of the politicians. Scorn our words when you know that we are uttering falsehoods, just as you scorn the dishonest advertiser...