Word: buzfuz
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...where the mad scamp, Alfred Jingle, takes the Pickwickians for £120 as balm for releasing his hold upon the elderly spinster of their party; the hunting expedition to which the jelly-bellied Pickwick sallies forth in a wheelbarrow; the court scene in Guildhall where Sergeant Buzfuz (bellowing in the person of Bruce Winston) wins the Widow Bardell's suit for breach of promise against the harassed but philosophical hero...
...first paragraph is Untermyer; the second, Steuer; the third, Buzfuz. Fortunately, in this case no matter how innocent either party may be, he will not go to jail like the poor Mr. Pickwick, found with his buxom landlady, widow Bardell, in his arms...
Devotees of Dickens will recall other parts of the clever Mr. Buzfuz's remarks as reported by Dickens...
...Sergeant Buzfuz began by saying that never in the whole course of his profession . . . had he approached a case with such deep emotion or with such a heavy sense of responsibility imposed upon...
...have heard from my learned friend, gentlemen' continued Sergeant Buzfuz, ' that this is an action for a breach of promise of marriage.... But you have not heard?inasmuch as it did not come within my learned friend's province to tell you what are the facts of the case. Those facts you shall hear detailed by me and proved by the unimpeachable female whom I will place in the box before...