Word: hucksterism
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Proctor McCormick started with a warning: "Unless we ... become conscious of our most vital problems and set about to solve them immediately, the time is not far distant when the profession of the law will have degenerated to a huckster business or else some violent change will do away with it entirely...
...Huckster's Trade. Educator Hutchins was not the only reformer to speak last week to the New York Bar. A speaker who "conceded that the prestige of the legal profession has been rapidly sinking in the public mind during the past quarter of a century" was the only salaried "proctor of the Bar" in the U. S. He is Karl A. McCormick, 50, of Buffalo, N. Y., whose job as watchdog of the Western New York judicial district was created last year by the New York Legislature to check the qualification of Bar candidates, investigate charges of unethical...
...from the Son Goddess Amaterasu-O-Mi-Kami, is never cartooned. The very notion freezes pious Japanese to the marrow and members of the Cabinet last week wailed: "This is terrible! Terrible!" Tension was heightened because His Majesty had been cartooned in the lowly and menial attitude of a huckster drawing through the streets a cart on which lay a rolled-up paper supposed to be the Nobel Peace Prize. What Vanity Fair's cartoonist might be getting at was obscure to Japanese, but he had dared to cartoon the Divine Emperor, and he had placed...
...described him: "Le Roi est radieux!" Definitely radiant at his side was Queen Mary in a gown of hydrangea pink silk net, embroidered with lace, and worn over a slip of dazzling silver cloth, the whole enhanced by a necklace, bracelets and earrings of diamonds and pearls. Roared a huckster from Victoria Monument, "God bless you, Sir! God save...
...halted close to the Rubel platform, the man in the white apron whipped out a submachine gun from beneath the sacks on his pushcart. Instantly he was surrounded by numerous allies, some of whom had just drawn up in three automobiles. Others, like the natty dresser and the inexpert huckster, emerged from the crowd that had loitered about the plant during the morning. Like a crack football team, the robbers went through their criminal plays with the precision of true professionals...