Word: quacked
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...changed the labels on his drug; they no longer claim a cure for anything. The Food & Drug Administration will continue to keep a suspicious eye on Dr. Koch. But interfering with his $100,000 business will not be easy; Koch is, says Lawyer Goodrich, "probably the smartest, brightest quack...
Died. Theodor Morell, 62, Hitler's personal physician; of double pneumonia; at Tegern See, Bavaria. A high-pressure quack who had been a VD expert for Berlin's whores, he made a fortune out of his relationship with the Führer, pumped vast amounts of narcotics, stimulants, aphrodisiacs and plain colored water into his boss, undermined his resistance, helped speed the physical breakdown which nearly crippled Hitler during the last days of the Third Reich...
Young Doctor Parris Mitchell (the hero of Kings Row), a home-town boy but a Vienna-trained psychiatrist, has become a paragon of goodness. As a disciple of Freud, he naturally has a hard time convincing his fellow citizens that he is more than a doubletalking quack. In time he not only shames his narrow-minded enemies but gives them, free, some sobering doses of analysis as well. At times coming very close to being a boring do-gooder, he rids a local rich man of his compulsion to bay like a hound, comforts the intimidated German townspeople when World...
Nicholas Konstantinovich Roerich, an egg-bald Russian with a twin-pronged beard, spent a lifetime seeking peace and, somehow, disturbing everything he touched. Devoted followers thought he was a genius who could unify humanity through art. Loudmouthed Westbrook Pegler thought he was a quack who wanted to become "head" of Siberia...
...Quack or genius, Roerich led a busy life that brushed against Eternal Krishna the Regenerator-and the ferrets of the U.S. Bureau of Internal Revenue; against dreamy Henry Wallace in Washington-and the 363 local gods of the Punjab's Kulu Valley. On Manhattan's Riverside Drive his devotees reared to his name a 29-story skyscraper, graded (like one of his own paintings of Himalayan mountains) from deep purple at the base to white at the top, and hung there 1,000 paintings from his facile brush. St. Mark's-in-the-Bouwerie devoted...