Word: buzfuz
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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...
...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...
...making their decision a quartet from the Glee Club will render several selections. All members of the University are cordially invited. The program is as follows, the order of the speakers to be determined by lot: "The Raven," Edgar Alian Poe Harold Artemas Packard '15. Speech of Sergeant Buzfuz, Charles Dickens Abraham Lincoln Lorenz '16. "The Man with the Hoe," Edwin Markham Louis Rubin '16. "Abraham Lincoln," Henry Watterson Andrew Johnson Richard Helmus '16. Maitre Raymond Floriot's Address to the Jury in Defence of his Mother, from "Madame X," Alexandre Bisson Sidney Burton Pfeifer '16. In Self-Defence, Robert...
...Lorenz '16.--"Plea of Sergeant Buzfuz," by Charles Dickens...