Word: quacks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could not quite believe it. A revolutionary smell clung to him like the faint, unmistakable odor of the cell and the cellar. It showed in his quack-doctor's beard and stump-speaker's hair, in his thin, restless hands and his flashing, nearsighted eyes; in his quick, alert, high-shouldered walk as he strolled about his garden. It persisted in his plotter's habits of thought, which made him the most potent critic of the regime he broke with and always a latent threat to it. The fate that all revolutionaries fear had pursued him wherever...
...greenhouse for a peek at the Joslyn orchids. Their elders exclaimed over the turreted grey pile's pipe organ. But in local society, even organ and orchids could never quite let George Joslyn and his wife Sarah live down the rumor that their fortunes were founded on a quack cure for gonorrhea ("Big G"). The Joslyns went to Omaha in 1880 with $9 and two suitcases. In 1916 sharp-eyed George Joslyn left his wife an estate of $5,200,000, made mostly from the Western Newspaper Union (boilerplate insides for small-town papers...
...rescue quack victims, the social hygienists suggested that: 1) anti-quackery laws be passed in the 33 States which have none; 2) existing laws be strongly enforced; 3) the U. S. Public Health Service spend more money* on counter-propaganda telling venereal disease sufferers ex actly "where to go for advice, diagnosis and treatment...