Word: shyster
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...FORTUNE COOKIE. Director Billy Wilder (The Apartment; Kiss Me, Stupid) tackles that great pastime, cheating the insurance company. His antihero is a leering, sneering shyster lawyer, played by Walter Matthau, who pulls the strings for the supposedly injured party, Jack Lemmon, and ends up stealing the show...
...hostility that he has lost 50% of his practice, his house, his office and his secretary, whose salary he could no longer pay. So far, the Whitus case has cost Jones $8,000 of his own money, and he is threatened by anonymous phone callers ("You goddam nigger-loving shyster. We'll get you"). A local weekly recently ran a story about him under the headline: is SCION OF ALBANY FAMILY A TRAITOR TO HIS CLASS...
...leave Paris, he hurries her away to a small town, where she is bored and makes his life hell. Determined to get back to the gay life, she disgraces him in public, and they have to leave town. Back in Paris, she wangles him a job with a notorious shyster. To escape the wifely routine, she goes to work for an ad agency. Several men pursue her hotly, and she accommodates all of them. Fortunately, he finds out what is going on, and he walks out on the bitch, who is left with her nose out of joint...
...life than does the sentence quoted above. Dean Monro is discussing the difference, in his opinion, between men who adhere to a moral code and those who pay attention only to a written law. "We are dealing here," he writes, "with the difference between a moral man and a shyster." Since the Dean is discussing undergraduate attitudes toward sex I can only infer that he is calling all those who have participated in pre-marital intercourse "shysters." That is not a description with which I can in any way agree. I can, however, understand how the Dean's feeling that...
...others. I suppose you are aware that this principle, extended into adult behavior, would destroy the basic of civilized and professional life, which is, of course, based mainly on moral principle and not just upon regard for the law. We are dealing here with the difference between the shyster and the moral man. If a man regards only the law, and not the moral order, what has be then to do with intellectual honesty, courage, loyalty, faithfulness, forbearance, kindness, courtesy? The fact is, in civilized and professional life a man's moral code and attitudes are the necessary concern...