Word: quacks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ever disputed the claim, which Henry Junius Schireson once made under oath, that he is "king of the quacks." He has practiced medicine for 40 years, the last ten in Philadelphia, without a degree. He has long been the untroubled butt of pained outcries by the Journal of the American Medical Association, of several legal charges and trials (for mayhem and dope peddling). He has been the subject of a movie (False Faces) in which a patient shoots a doctor after losing a suit for malpractice. Last month the Philadelphia Record began a series of articles on Quack Schireson...
...with malaria and dengue fever. Still grey with sickness, he set up headquarters on Guadalcanal preparatory to the New Georgia invasion. "Terrible" Turner's bridge was a jungle clearing marked by a wooden sign: "U.S.S. Crocodile-Flagship- Amphibious Forces South Pacific." Under the scorching tropic sun, amidst the quack of bena birds and the coo of kura kura pigeons, dressed in khaki pants and shirt, he taught the new amphibious doctrine, which he was learning himself, to the officers under his heterogeneous command: air officers, marine colonels, brigadier generals, destroyer captains, PT commanders, crusty transport skippers...
Lots of Englishmen take to the U.S. like ducks to water, but few learn to quack the idiom as fast or as well as Geoffrey Bridson has. Redhaired, red-mustached, bouncy little Bridson (pronounced Brideson), 33, has for the past four months been interpreting the U.S. to Britons via BBC. He has done so with uncommon perception and success. Onetime insurance salesman, poet, at present Geoffrey Bridson is BBC's best known writer-producer-director...
...look like a creamery truck when you put on a white suit? If you gain another ten pounds, will you have to wear license plates? Why look like the back of a hack? Try Dr. Quack's Slim Jim Reducing Tablets...
...FELL DOWN DEAD - Virginia Perdue - Crime Club ($2). The suspenseful tale of a young bride's discovery that her handsome and plausible husband - a California quack doctor - is a proper target for murder. Exciting, convincing and an excellent job of writing, in the same bracket with Francis Iles's Before the Fact...