Word: quack
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...injured rib, Anne wrote: "That's what happens to elderly ladies who do such idiotic exercises to reduce their large behinds." When Dentist Dussel went to work on Mrs. van Daan's molars, Anne was gleefully reminded of "a picture from the Middle Ages entitled 'A Quack at Work.' " But she could make fun of herself too: her beloved diary she called "the unbosomings of an ugly duckling...
Impatient Patients. By that time, Dr. Lincoln claimed to have an "entirely new system of medicine," and his fame was spreading far beyond the elm-lined streets of Medford. In Arkansas, Dr. Jacob S. Schirmer, graduate of a shut-down diploma mill and one-time follower of Cancer Quack William Koch, got the local franchise for the Lincoln treatment. Other "fellows" of the Lincoln Foundation set up shop in 22 states...
...synonym for urbanity, but he himself remained a bawling, rough-cut outlander from Aspen, Colo. A catty old friend, Alexander Woollcott, once described him as looking like "a dishonest Abe Lincoln." Rumpled, wild-haired and irascible, Ross talked in an ear-splitting voice, a combination of rasp and quack. He often expressed himself in skid-row profanity, or by mere grunts or gap-toothed grins. He had the energy of a bull, and a bull-like charm. Though he often sounded as crass as a cymbal, he had an amazing sensitivity for words, a pouncing eye for the phony...
...Fledermaus and three Musettas in Bohème, she will get a coveted role in the Met's new, English-language production of Mozart's Cosí Fan Tutte, as Despina the maid, who decoys her mistresses into affairs with two rich Albanians, masquerades as a quack physician, and generally moves the whole plot around...
Massachusetts tried a remedy in 1940. It was branded "quack," labeled "communistic," and praised as the "biggest step forward in Massachusetts' political history." This was Plan E, which provides for a city manager to run a city's affairs and a nine man council, including a mayor, who legislate...