Word: doctor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Proud as Publisher Macfadden is of his four confessionals, he is most proud of his first brain-child and moneymaker, Physical Culture, which advises seekers of health to go to the gymnasium instead of the doctor, is filled with pictures of full-figured women, brawny near-nuded men with marcelled hair and muscle-bound expressions...
...Hutton suggested that, physicians, when they are called on a new case, estimate the total cost of treatment, have the patient sign notes for the expected bill. The notes would bear 6% interest charges and would fall due at regular intervals, like instalments on a motor or radio. The doctor would take the notes to a special financing corporation and get $35 for every $100 which his patient was to owe him. When the full bill was paid to the financing corporation the doctor would get $51.37 more, a total of $86.37 for each $100 of service. The corporation would...
...Ambassador Dawes was again the target of every glance at Oxford's musty Sheldonian Theatre. In a black velvet hat and the scarlet gown and hood of a Doctor of Civil Law, he sat on the platform while the Public Orator of Oxford University, Dr. Arthur Blackburne Poynton, presented him as a "Missionary of peace and harmony among Nations...
...going home. His physician had advised him to take a long summer's rest, to camp and fish in the open, to fill his lungs with fresh Pacific air. As he started on his transcontinental motor trip, he might easily have been mistaken for a successful doctor or a famed lawyer. But he was neither. He was Clarence True Wilson, A. B., B. D., Ph. B., D. D., LL. D., executive secretary of the Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals of the Methodist Episcopal Church, a power in U. S. Drys, Consolidated...
...given to matrimony. Husband Carter's rage is quelled by his wife, who afterwards tells him that she has never been able to accept Bradford completely. Inspired by this new light on faithful, patient wifehood, Husband Carter decides to stay with Mrs. Carter and consult a new doctor...