Word: quack
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...regard myself as a guilty accomplice of the Jew Grynszpan, who murdered Third Secretary vom Rath." Each morning they were put through the following catechism, varied according to their profession or trade: "What were you?" Answer: "I was a doctor." Reply of catechist: "No, you were a quack and thief." The same question and answer were repeated until the prisoner answers: "I was a quack and thief." A merchant was compelled to reply: "I was a swindler." and a hand worker to reply: "I was a dumb Jew without brains enough to cheat Germans...
...until he is called upon to decide when and why the average U. S. citizen would go to war. At this point Thanks for Everything explodes into a climax which combines straight slapstick with vigorous satire on such U. S. preoccupations as the advertising business, manufactured war scares, quack psychiatry, 1939 World's Fairs...
...Miriam Hopkins), out to wheedle her orphan nieces (Cinemoppets Betty Philson & Marianna Strelby) away from their penurious foster parent (Ray Milland), ends up with the hearts of all three. Sample whimsey: Q. ''What goes quack-quack and lays an egg?'' A. "Joe Penner...
...literature, and would read in it the secret history of the people in whose minds it took root..., may by any means turn away, in lofty literary scorn, from the almanac--most despised, most prolific, most indispensable of books, which every man uses, and no man praises; the very quack, clown, pack-horse, and pariah of modern literature, yet the one universal book of modern literature...
Born in Richford in upState New York in 1839, John Rockefeller moved to Cleveland with his parents in 1853. His father, a restless, rollicking, lovable quack with dubious sources of income, including horse trading and hawking a cancer cure, was often absent from home for weeks at a time, used to cheat his sons to teach them sharpness. Where or when the father died is a secret which the Rockefellers have never divulged. The pious mother, Eliza Davison Rockefeller, brought up the moral balance...