Word: client
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...black-haired, 27-year-old Judith Coplon against charges of espionage in a Washington court, loudmouthed little Attorney Archie Palmer had tried almost every lawyer's trick in the book. He almost cracked his vocal cords with protest when the Government introduced some of the contents of his client's purse-FBI "data slips" which the prosecution charged she had taken from her desk in the Justice Department to give to a Russian agent...
Lawyer-Detective Perry Mason wasn't looking for all the trouble he got. He was just trying to find the hit & run driver who had put his client in the hospital; all he wanted was a fair settlement. Of course, any Erie Stanley Gardner fan could have told Perry Mason he was headed for plenty of trouble. Before The Case of the Cautious Coquette is over, Mason gets tangled up with a dazzling blonde gold digger, unwittingly puts his own fingerprints on a murder weapon, runs down a smart killer who has the cops going around in circles, gets...
...everything," boasts the black-haired little bartender. "What have you got?" To the client complaining of ulcers, he says: "Muy bien, señor. For you, pisco from a bottle of turnip. That'll be 1½ soles [11?]." In a huge green bottle beside the ulcer cure soaks a banana. "Sĩ señor, bananas. They are to cure dandruff. The pisco sits for a month, absorbing the dandruff-eliminating elements and the hair-restoring elements right out of the banana. That's camomile steeping in the next bottle. Cures malaria. If you want...
...with the underwriters. They have found Lloyd's underwriters willing to bet on any risk if the customer has an insurable interest, i.e., a customer can insure that a horse will run in a race, but not that he will win. (In 1813, before that requirement, a client insured Napoleon's life & liberty for ?500.) Four-fifths of all U.S. commercial airliners are reinsured with Lloyd's members; its syndicates paid out millions in claims after the Texas City disaster...
...pastors' lawyers also plugged their clients' cultural guilt as proof that they had been led astray. Intoned one: "The defendants were not only obedient tools, they were ideologically convinced tools. The defendants are victims of a foreign influence." Another made it even plainer where his sympathies really lay. "My client," he said, "is a weak-willed person [who] sold out to the Anglo-Americans. I ask for one year in prison for my client. If he does not like the way I am defending him, he ought to be frank...