Word: buzfuz
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Buzfuz" was what Mr. Untermyer called Mr. Steuer, referring to the ingenious lawyer whom Dickens devised to send Mr. Pickwick to prison for breach of promise?because a. lady had fainted in his arms...
...Steuer replied: " If ever there was a Sergeant Buzfuz I had to contend with him for five weeks . . . Dickens did not dislike lawyers . . . He wrote the character of Sergeant Buzfuz in the hope that he would eliminate from the English bar the shysters that indulged in deceptions upon juries...