Word: quacking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clearly a season for ducks...with a quack quack here and a quack quack there...and a quack quack everywhere. Yes, even Mabel, the blallard in front of the student building celebrated the leaving of the seniors by hatching out seven little ones...she evidently got her Active Duty assignment Of the sixty-six Nieman Follows, only six have left journalism for any other activity than military or emergency wartime government service. Of these six, one is executive in a shipyard, one with the Red Cross Blood Donor Service, two handling public relations of large aviation and munitions industries...
When Dr. Kelly cured a woman of cancer with radium in 1904, he was called a quack. Years later his own cheeks were scarred where, with radium, the physician had healed himself. For the Howard A. Kelly Hospital, which he founded in 1892 next to his home on Eutaw Place, he acquired the world's largest private stock of radium-over $2,000,000 worth. Dr. Kelly remained an innovator into old age -in 1932 he wrote a book advocating electrosurgery. Paying tribute to him on his 75th birthday, Dr. Welch wrote from his deathbed: "You did more than...
...CORPSE IN THE SNOWMAN-Nicholas Blake-Harper ($2). A girl dies at an English house party that includes a trollop, a squire, an American wife, a rolling stone, a fribble, a quack. Detective Nigel Strangeways is baffled right up to the tantalizing conclusion. Grim and pathological, but a grand...
...John Chapman bought a publishing house, and later bought the great, liberal Westminster Review. Chapman, says Author Haight, was vain, humble, shrewd, generous, a quack and a reformer. "Though he refused to publish a novel containing an objectionable love scene, he maintained in the heart of mid-Victorian London a household no novelist would then have dared to describe...
Actually, Gehrig never was "felled" by the polio germ. His ailment, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (TIME, March 25), is something quite different, is not communicable. The New York Yankees hurriedly disproved "Doctor" Powers' quack diagnosis by winning six games in a row and moving up to third place in the American League pennant race-only six games behind the league-leading Cleveland Indians. Lou Gehrig's rebuttal was more direct. Saying that he is now "a pariah whom many people shun," honest, earnest Lou Gehrig, who has been practically canonized since retiring from baseball last summer, last week brought...