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Finshriber has to-morrow for Easter dinner that skin doctor, Abrams, and his wife she's so particular about. And Annie with her sore ankle and " "A little shyster doctor like Abrams with his advertisements all over the newspapers should sponge off you and your holiday! By golly! Mrs. Kaufman, just like Ruby says, how you let a whole houseful of old hens rule this roost it's a shame!"
Amasa Culpepper, who not only keeps the grocery store but is a sort of shyster lawyer, and a money lender as well. Everybody says he's smitten with your mother, and wants to be a second father to you and your sisters and brothers." "Well that used to worry me a whole lot," admitted Carl, frankly, "until I asked my mother if she cared any for Amasa.
Thurston himself had not been there for several days and was reported to have gone to Maine to sketch. He had had a number of debts, but before he left they had all been paid strange to say, by a notorious firm of shyster lawyers, Kerr & Kimmel. Kennedy wired back to find out the facts from Kerr & Kimmel and to locate Thurston at any cost.
At a time when the industrial problem is pressing upon us with ever increasing power, it is discouraging to hear grown Americans prattling of "unhorsing" economic adversaries priding themselves on polemical fence, like shyster lawyers, and seeking victory through sophistry rather than truth by honest inquiry. That is not patriotism, but a picayune partisanship which I profoundly pity.
Mr. Wilfred Edgerton suspected that a magistrate's court was a dirty sort of hole, full of brawling shyster lawyers, and he didn't want to know any more about such places than he could help.
True, it was a good advertisement at Boosters' Club lunches, and all the varieties of Annual Banquets to which Good Fellows were invited, to speak sonorously of Unselfish Public Service, the Broker's Obligation to Keep Inviolate the Trust of His Clients, and a thing called Ethics, whose nature was confusing but if you had it you were a High-class Realtor and if you hadn't you were a shyster, a piker, and a fly-by-night.
Tear round!" continued Rand, kicking his boots off in a corner, "just because I ask you a civil question. That's brotherly," he added, jerking his chair away against the side of the cabin, "ain't it?" "She's not to blame because her mother drinks, and her father's a shyster," said Ruth earnestly and strongly.
Becoming more reminiscent over his second drink, the colonel could vaguely recall only one Boompointer a blank skulking hound, sir a mean white shyster but, of course, he couldn't have been of the same breed as such a blank fine woman as the widow!
You remember that colored client of ours who wanted us to bring an action against somebody for calling him an Ethiopian!" "There's nothing dishonorable in being an Ethiopian," asserted Miss Wiggin. "A shyster," said Mr. Tutt, reading from the Century Dictionary, "is defined as 'one who does business trickily; a person without professional honor; used chiefly of lawyers." "Well?" snapped Tutt.
Why had she not gone to Farrell with the proposition to a man whom she knew Fairchild trusted, instead of to a greasy, hand rubbing shyster? And besides But the question was past answering now. Fairchild had made his decision, and he had told the lawyer where to go.
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