Word: steuer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Majestic (White Star)?Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, sculptress; Cass Gilbert, famed architect; Max Steuer, famed Manhattan lawyer; Morris Gest, theatrical producer; Vassily Katchaloff, leading actor of the Moscow Art Theatre; Lee Shubert, theatrical producer...
Married. Miss Constance Steuer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Max D. Steuer, Manhattan lawyer, who, according to his own affidavit, never obtains less than $1,000 a day for appearing in court (TIME, Oct. 29), to Alfred Milton Lindau, in Manhattan...
...Buzfuz" was what Mr. Untermyer called Mr. Steuer, referring to the ingenious lawyer whom Dickens devised to send Mr. Pickwick to prison for breach of promise?because a. lady had fainted in his arms...
...Steuer replied: " If ever there was a Sergeant Buzfuz I had to contend with him for five weeks . . . Dickens did not dislike lawyers . . . He wrote the character of Sergeant Buzfuz in the hope that he would eliminate from the English bar the shysters that indulged in deceptions upon juries...
...first paragraph is Untermyer; the second, Steuer; the third, Buzfuz. Fortunately, in this case no matter how innocent either party may be, he will not go to jail like the poor Mr. Pickwick, found with his buxom landlady, widow Bardell, in his arms...