Word: quacked
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...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...
...Zoological Gardens at Bristol, where a Conservative party picnic was being held. When reporters crowded round, the lady pinked with amiability. "I was wondering as I entered the Zoo," she said, "in what category I really belong. I am too old to play with the monkeys or quack with the ducks. I do not want to be enrolled among the geese, and still less among the boars. I wonder where I belong...
That headline, that poetry and the sketch of "John's Wife" with her mouth open heavenward in praise of a drunkard's nostrum or reaching for "John's" de-alcoholized kiss-last week commanded attention in many a U. S. newspaper which profits from quack-advertisements. Presumably, enough whiskey continues available in the U. S. to gamble that a good percentage of newspaper readers would "fall" for a cure. Such cure Dr. J. W. Haines, of Cincinnati, offered to provide in his powders. They contain milk sugar, starch, capsicum (pepper) and a minute amount of ipecac...