Word: quack
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there, but woven with skill into the fabric of a tremendously swiftmoving drama; and, moreover, the folk atmosphere is not mere adornment, but has a vital part in the development of the plot. A red-coated orphanage band leading the inhabitants of Catfish Row on a picnic; a quack lawyer in a top hat, selling Porgy a divorce from Bess for a dollar and a half; the marvelous scenes of a score of bodies swaying in rhythm as they chant for the dead; these are local color of the highest grade, but they are also integral parts of the play...
...Church House of Bishops, at Washington, resolved that "This House definitely declared that the Episcopal Church Temperance Society has no official standing in this Church." After warnings from the New York City Health Department, in September he closed the Health Education Society Clinic. Very quickly his clinic reopened (as quack outfits do) at another address and with another name, the Emanuel Institute...
...Voice had cried: "Sixty percent of all babies born of cigaret-sucking mothers die before they reach the age of two." Investigation showed that the Voice got its research from hearsay and a man whose name resembled that of a doctor whom the American Medical Association calls a quack...
...must not be thought, from these few examples, that the people who are sending and bringing these medicines and suggestions to the Palace are slightly unbalanced. Anything but. They are men and women who take the King's illness as a personal affliction and they honestly feel that their quack medicines and prescriptions are not only an expression of their loyalty but that they are the only things which can save the King. The arrival a few days ago of a special serum from the United States which was rushed to the Palace and given much publicity in the newspapers...
...campaign having closed and the advertisers of quack cures and medicines in The Fellowship Forum having reported tidy profits, the paper will doubtless continue in the even tenor of its oldtime ways, running such stories as "POPE CAUGHT RED-HANDED...