Word: chaser
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ambulance chaser is a lawyer's tout (hireling, doctor, nurse, policeman, friend, acquaintance) who persuades an injured person to hire the lawyer to sue for personal damages...
...July, 1918, he crossed the ocean in a destroyer escorting a huge troop convoy. For two months he inspected all United States navy activities in the allied countries, as well as the Grand Fleet, the destroyer and sub-chaser forces, and the aviation and bombing stations. After visiting the allied front lines he returned to this country...
Sued for Divorce. Harry Langdon, famed baby-face cinecomedian (Long Pants, The Chaser, etc.), by Mrs. Frances Langdon of Los Angeles. They have been married twenty-four years...
...Chaser. "Girls, isn't he simply darling!" Thus exclaimed one of a series of advertisements in fashionable women's magazines. The face in the copy was Harry Langdon's. His business of being simply darling consists of three gestures: 1) staring blankly like a little boy who has just found half a worm in the apple he is eating; 2) picking his teeth with his thumb and index finger; 3) waddling as if his pants were about to fall down...
...Chaser Mr. Langdon is a wife-pecked husband, who is made to do the cooking and housecleaning. Morose, he drinks "poison" which turns out to be castor oil. To some, that is simply darling...