Word: client
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days the trial was delayed while the prosecution rounded up some alienists of its own to swear with equal positiveness that Lieut. Massie was sane when Kahahawai was shot. Lawyer Darrow would not allow Dr. Joseph Catton and Paul Bowers, both also of California, to examine his client. But that did not prevent the pair from testifying after a perusal of the court record...
...less interesting, except for Mr. Connolly as the crusty and poverty-stricken lawyer whom she picks at random from the telephone book when the situation seems to call for a husband. Very entertainingly his fortunes look up for a time as the incredible little Cindarella sends a rich client his way. But the promised legal practice vanishes at a fairy's caprice, and even the new pencil-sharpener has to be returned...
...Detroit, while demonstrating to Chief Detective Frahm how his client shot a man, Attorney Allen W. Kent shot himself to death...
With a written confession to the crime already in the Government's hands, substantiated almost completely in person last week by the 21-year-old prisoner, counsel for the defense concentrated on a self-defense plea to save his client from the looming gallows. "I propose to prove," he told the jury, "that this girl, many times the boy's mental and emotional superior, made him drink a quantity of liquor before he would take her to the dance. I propose to remind this court what is known to everyone here-that tulapai to an Apache is murder...
...undesirable professor does not embezzle funds; he makes a silly ass of himself. He does not run away with a client's money; he lets a fool idea run away with him. . . There is a type of professor who attempts to be as silly, sensational and shocking as possible...