Word: gaudium
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seem good. A lawyer sees them at their worst as well as at their best. As an old lawyer once said, "The business of a lawyer is to keeps the fools out of the hands of knaves", and in the effort one sees much knavery and much folly. That gaudium certaminis which we all seek in athletic contests and in games like chess and whist the lawyer finds in daily life. The successful cross-examination of a witness, the sudden and surprising turn which a case may take, the quick retort, the eloquent argument,--all these are interesting as they...