Word: quack
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...laughed at that most of those who think of him at all regard him as a second Baron Munchauacn. At next he has been considered a funny man with a crazy new idea of auto-suggestion, famous because he is so funny; at worst he is a scheming quack...
...become known. He was born of poor parents, worked his way through school and college, taking three degrees in the process; kept a drug store for fourteen years; and finally, through sheer hard work and force of character, made a career for himself hardly the story of an ignorant quack, or the ordinary doctor...
...centuries; in Sir Arthur's wake there will almost certainly spring up a number of fraudulent mediums. This is apparently an evil which necessarily accompanies any kind of popular interest in an idea difficult to understand. In which last category all new ideas fall; the astrologers, phrenologists, palmists, and quack doctors who pursue their business profitably even in this 'enlightened' period, indicate that spiritualism is not the only subject which has its take progenitors...
...ZOOLOGICAL CLUB. "Effect of Radium upon Animal Growth and Structure." Mr. E. D. Congdon. "Quack-Grass, a Host of the Hessian Fly." Mr. Hayhurst. Zoological Laboratory, 4th floor, Room...
...made no progress in his courtship. Meanwhile the country Luce had come to London after Chartley, and, disguised as a page, she overheard the plans for the wedding. She then engaged herself as a boy in the service of the Wise-Woman, who carried on a flourishing trade in quack medicines, enchantments and fortune telling. Chartley had incurred the displeasure of the Wise-Woman, and she on learning from the supposed boy that the he was to wed Luce at her house on the next day, planned to repay him for his insults. She conceived the idea of disguising...