Word: shysters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seldom nowadays that distinguished lawyers are criminal lawyers. The big fees and the prestige result from study and practice of corporation law, estate law, banking law and to a less extent divorce law. Criminal law is a subject left to the unscrupulous shyster, the political heeler, the occasional social reformer or great charlatan or utter cynic. It has been remarkable, therefore, to watch the increasing emphasis which the American Bar Association has felt it should lay, at its distinguished annual conventions, upon the criminal tendencies and condition of the land. It has made laymen wonder whether there is any relation...
...Shyster lawyers propped unshined shoes on dirty desks and snickered. At Justice Joseph M. Proskauer of the New York Supreme Court* their giggles were aimed...
...late Yale-Princeton game, incensed by criticisms of my coaching, I said: 'Those yellowbellies who crucified my brother and Frank Hinkey and Tom Shevlin are not going to crucify me. I was forced into this job. I am willing to be judged by other coaches . . . not by shyster lawyers, poor doctors, dentists, $18-a-week clerks who think they know more football than Roper, Dobie, myself and all the other coaches in the country. Injuries have crippled the team so that at times this season I have been lucky to have four backs who knew the signals...
...followed tradition in hearing a speech from the U, S. Attorney General. Last year big Harlan F. Stone warned against shyster and semi-shyster attorneys This year big John G. Sargent warned against the same. He, a country lawyer, pointed out the tendency among urban attorneys to advertise themselves, to present "surprise" evidence, to forget the veneration which in less noisy times was paid to the great Principles of Justice...