Word: shyster
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...adventuress to remain at Saint Saturnin, apparently plans ,to marry her. The children get rid of Ninette but it does them little good. Their father takes up with a succession of trained nurses, asks each one to be his wife. With imperious disregard for dignity, he lets a village shyster cheat him out of the family fortune. Furious at his children's well-meant attempts to interfere, he gives orders for workmen to tear down his chateau, remodel it to suit his whims. He walks through his woods dressed in a smock painted to look like leaves, puts...
Lawyers, it is true, have proved extremely chary of disbarring their fellows and it is probable that they have failed to oust from the profession many men whose practices have been far from impeccable. The prospect of quelling the shyster lawyer is attractive. That possibility, however, cannot balance the danger of giving individual judges, inevitably fallible, unchecked control over the liberty of all members of the bar in their district...
There can be little doubt that there is a sad lack of coordination in the practical applications of the sciences of law and medicine. One has only to examine the administration of local and state health departments. The shyster settlements of insurance claims, and the frequent examples of the inexpert application of medicine to criminal cases bear witness to the urgent need for men competent to act with knowledge and experience in both departments...
Greatest single U. S. bank crash was that of New York City's slyly named, shyster officered Bank of United States, which last December closed the doors of its 59 branches on 400,000 customers who had $160,000,000 deposited at the time. Investigation by the State revealed a vast tangle of suspicious irregularities. After two months eight officers of the bank were indicted for willful misappropriation of funds. Five were ordered to trial: President Bernard K. Marcus, son of the institution's founder; Russian-born Chairman of the Executive Committee Saul Singer; Counsel Isidor Jacob Kresel...
...PROMISE ME-Lee Tracy as a venal and jolly young shyster...