Word: cynicisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...criminal lawyers. The big fees and the prestige result from study and practice of corporation law, estate law, banking law and to a less extent divorce law. Criminal law is a subject left to the unscrupulous shyster, the political heeler, the occasional social reformer or great charlatan or utter cynic. It has been remarkable, therefore, to watch the increasing emphasis which the American Bar Association has felt it should lay, at its distinguished annual conventions, upon the criminal tendencies and condition of the land. It has made laymen wonder whether there is any relation between the lawyers' neglect...
Reconciled. James Alexander ("Jim") Tully, onetime boisterous tramp, later a prizefighter, most recently a writer (Jarnegan, Circus Parade); and Mrs. Margaret Myers Tully. After a separation of five days they were reunited, due to the efforts of Cynic H. L. Mencken, Judge Benjamin Barr Lindsey, Novelist Rupert Hughes...
...latter "a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose" which he does not favor repealing and which, "of course," he stands for enforcing vigorously, sincerely. "It must be worked out constructively," said Candidate Hoover, leaving public information about where it was. Clarence Darrow, cynic lawyer, tried to illuminate by announcing, in Cincinnati: "I don't think Hoover is any drier than I am. I ought to know. I have had a drink with...
...following enlightening article from the Vermont Cynic shows the vicissitudes through which our forebears went in attending Harvard and Mt. Holyoke in days gone...
...Garden of Eden. High were the hopes that carried first nighters to this imported mockery. The play had been a mad success in Germany; had been adapted for the local trade by facile A very Hopwood;* was reputedly risque (the cynic likes a bawdy joke as well as do the home folks); and had been proposed for various famed actresses (Jeanne Eagels, et al). Miram Hopkins† finally got the part and did well enough with it; probably better than the part deserved For the play was pale. To be sure Miss Hopkins was called upon to disrobe almost constantly...