Word: persons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With what wealth of plot and counterplot did the play proceed! A friend of Jackson Jones lent his incongruous assistance to Billie; he was a person who used these terms in answering a telephone: "You speak first, it's your nickel." Also he suggested a Smith slogan...
...ambulance chaser is a lawyer's tout (hireling, doctor, nurse, policeman, friend, acquaintance) who persuades an injured person to hire the lawyer to sue for personal damages...
...chaser's enemy is the claim agent who tries to get the injured person to disclaim damages, or take at most a small money settlement. Insurance companies have such agents, and street car companies, railroads, taxicab systems...
...cities have their claim agents and ambulance chasers. New York has most. After an accident they scamper to the injured person's door, clamoring to save or earn a few dollars. Their practice is against public welfare. Bar associations, medical associations, the courts, good citizens everywhere have denounced both chasers and agents?futilely...
...sadist who bullies, tortures, kills, for the sheer thrill of it; an editor-publisher, bitterly caricatured, who fleeces his authors, but shows his mistress an almost inhuman tenderness; a conversational philosopher who is said to be the author's particular mouthpiece. As such, he is a brilliantly garrulous person, for Huxley fairly seethes with things to be said about art, science, life...