Word: docs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Certainly," the doc said, reaching for a drawer full of state income-tax forms...
...doc followed Bert's advice. He opened an office in Washington, but when he got married he bought a house across the Potomac in Arlington County. He paid Virginia state income taxes, and, in fact, eventually became a good friend of the state tax collector. When one of his daughters grew up and began filing federal income tax returns, he helped her fill them out. But for 30 years, Chiropractor Meyers never paid a cent of federal income tax himself. Bert's misinformation had "cocooned" in his mind...
...least, that is what the doc said when an income-tax agent dropped into his office a few months ago, and interrupted his three decades of bliss by asking to see his income-tax returns...
...People in Virginia have to pay federal income taxes too," the agent assured him. For a dreadful moment it was so quiet in the office that you could hear a tendon snap. "You're kidding," gasped the doc. But everyone thought the doc was kidding. Last week in federal court, even his own lawyer suggested that his story was "fantastic." The judge cried "Preposterous!" and fined...
...cigar after each one, a little whisky to regulate the heart, a cheerful disposition to relax the system, a healthy skepticism to clear the mind of notions, and a sane moderation in exercise and bathing, either of which could kill a man if he didn't watch out." Doc Beall's most common prescription was lamp oil taken internally. He took it himself and lived almost 90 years. Mary, his sister, smoked chewing tobacco in a clay pipe, let a pet black snake have the run of her house, and outlived two husbands. When, in the hospital...