Word: quacks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weary Britons last fortnight read these piquant queries in their favorite column-Nat Gubbins' "Sitting on the Fence" (TIME, Dec. 18)-and settled down to learn what "Dr. N. Gubbins, the notorious Fleet Street quack," had to say on the subject of psychoneurosis...
Stomach Abracadabra. The doctor who hung his shingle in the village or rode circuit through the forest was, often as not, a quack. Charms were popular: for convulsions, pour baptismal water over the peony bush; for bedwetting, fried-mouse pie; for a cold, crawl through a double-rooted briar toward the east; for a fever, write "Abracadabra" on a piece of paper and wear it over the stomach. Manufactured charms included "Perkins Patent Tractors" (metal rods to draw out disease) and "Dr. Christie's Galvanic Belt . . . for all nervous diseases...
...Royce saw John Warner recently and reports that "Thomas is a quack--don't go to Thomas." All men with disappearing hair lines should consult Senor Royce before committing suicide--gulp...
...78th Congress flickered to a finish, lame-duck Congressmen seized their last chance. One by one, they took to the floor with prepared valedictories. Most of their colleagues had already gone home, but the Congressional Record was still there, duty-bound to print every last quack. Each swan-songster was convinced that his constituents had been misguided, but magnanimously agreed to abide by the voters' decision. Each also wanted to take a few fast, final pokes at the Soviet Union and the British Empire...
...Identified by another Schireson patient as New York's Governor Dewey, who allegedly had his nose improved by Quack Schireson. Said Dewey through his secretary: "Never head of Schireson...