Word: shoptalk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Three new papers promise scoops and shoptalk for lawyers...
...these are no doubt the kinds of matters they discuss over lunch. Now heaven can wait. The American Lawyer, which served up the aforesaid juicy items this week, and two other new tabloid-format papers, are busy attending to the profession's voracious appetite for scandal, scuttlebutt and shoptalk. Unlike hundreds of established legal journals, newspapers and newsletters, which concern themselves chiefly with issues and trends in the law, the new papers emphasize lawyers per se, ad hominem and in flagrante delicto. Also how and where lawyers work, what they earn, what their jobs are like...
...reality, the pair is never offstage. Perhaps no actor ever is. John and Robert display the vanities and insecurities of their craft, the exhilaration and the stomach-pit dread, the droll nuances of paying insults in the guise of compliments. The play may perhaps come too close to shoptalk...
...from the old Lindy's on Broadway, the surprisingly likable Blye is full of pungent city speech. Though he works fifteen hours a day for his $50,000 income, he loves his work as few men do. Consequently, Blye, Private Eye is that most mesmerizing of pastimes: inspired shoptalk...
...President William Howard Taft. "Mrs. Robb and I gossiped about people at the White House. I have always admired the Johnsons," said Mrs. Manning. As for Susan, "She was the least bothersome photographer I have ever had, very professional and businesslike." Did the bipartisan progeny engage in any political shoptalk? Answered Manning quickly: "None at all, I assure...