corn-doctor

The gouty steamer potters comfortably in, and lays up its tired keel, while the dock is being discharged, as serenely as a patient who lays his foot on the knee of a corn-doctor: in due time, relieved and sound, the invalid is ready to take the stage of life again.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 Various

Does an Augustus Thomas rise up with his corn-doctor magic and Sunday-school platitudes, proving heavily that love is mightier than the sword, that a pure heart will baffle the electric chair, that the eye is quicker than the hand?

Prejudices : first series, 1919

And finally there was the corn-doctor from a town somewhere in Indiana, who had the upper berth in Number Ten.

Roughing it De Luxe John T. McCutcheon 1910

Goldwin Smith, who in the days of his professorship at Oxford, saw much of Lord John Russell, once told me that his lordship always made upon him the impression of ` ` an eminent corn-doctor. ''

Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White, Volume I 1905

On the third day he informed the people that he was a good old corn-doctor, who could cure corns of long standing or those of short duration.

My own life, or, A deserted wife, 1895

However, this did not annoy Herr Von Barwig, for he had not yet realised that in America every concertina and rag-time piano-player, as well as barber, corn-doctor, and teacher of the manly art of boxing, is entitled to the distinction of being called professor.

The Music Master Novelized from the Play Charles Klein 1891

"I'm a corn-doctor -- you've heard of Dr. Felix Graham, the celebrated corn-doctor, haven't you?" said the old man, complacently.

The Young Outlaw or, Adrift in the Streets Horatio Alger 1865

Men who couldn't tell a fundamental principle from their funny-bone, an economic thesis from a hot tamale -- who don't know whether Ricardo was an economist or a corn-doctor -- evolve from their empty ignorance new systems of "saving the country," and defend them with the dogmatic assurance of a nigger preacher describing the devil -- make gorgeous displays of their Gall.

The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 12 1919