Bouncing off Dos Passos

I read The American Lawyer today,  John R. Dos Passos

Events, pretense, presence, prepense, and pre-Pence

Intimacy and contumacy

Mad advocacy

litigants, it again

Compliant with complaints

Tailors making suits

Rendering justice, sur-render, 

    and certainty, survival, circumstances, Sur-real

Attorneys, turn knees, the dance

Bored with ordinances

Defiance of clients

Sic, sick

musicians, on record

court, cour, courage, t - cross my heart, hope to dye

Legal combat, eagles seagulls, beagles, and wombats

Links to lynx, pork and porcupines, zeal and zebras, seals

  With purpose and porpoise

Case and code, chance and chants, client’s cause

Stratus and status

Axing the facts, exaggeration and adjuration

Magistrate, magic state, substrate

Elusive, collusive

Deceitful seat, eat: expense, annoyance, trouble

Unlimited confidence of UC, usurping clients’ (JD)

Mary won the primary

S+M, substance and merits

Presidential precedent, presiding and pre-siding

decisive, incisive, sieve

Starry night, stare decisis, sd -satan devil

JLT, judicial and legal theory, Jesse Lawrence teshara, thwarting law and justice

GLT, great legal talent, Gregory Lawrence teshara 

ICA, interstate commerce act, immaculate conception academy

LT, technical legerdemain, domain of demons, l’estat, automobile autonomy

Attention to 10 chins, tension

Liability, and ability to lie, deceive

You and I, U+I, uncertainty and instability

Pat, incompatible precedent

Inconsistencies and confusion, ignorance and contempt

hs, history and spirit (of constitution)

Mop, mountains of precedent, breakwater, means or practices

Apprised of a prize

JD, judgment and discretion

Form and function, form/content, formality, formaldehyde

PH, professional honor, physics, metaphysics, phun

SS, Selfish and sinister, shrieking sensationalism

CIP, character influence position (of a lawyer)

fiends, friends, finds, phones, and funds

rhetoric, oratory, or ore (in Oregon, or a gun)

insults, results, desultory, sultan (and satan)

PE, protect and emancipate (the oppressed)

   Perorations and exordiums, professional ethics

DC, defend causes, duty to court, client, community

RC, respect and confidence, resolute and courageous

Comparison, cum pair,  community, cum unity

Greenbacks and wet backs

Ads and animadverts

Pimps, pumps, and putting money in your purse

Histrionic thespians, sufferance, quips and equipment

Attic humor, comity and comedy, satire ridicule and wit

Sad, song and dance, TV, tragedy and vaudeville

Boob tube, breasts, bosom, butt, balls, B, 10 cum man mints

   schools, academies, colleges

AI, audacity and immodesty

DOD, dereliction/discharge of duty, dept of defense 

Dad, deceitful and dishonest

Suitors and suitable suits

Going on dates, general obligation and duty

CT, Connecticut court

AA, actors and authors, ack authoritarians

Aspirin for aspirants

AAA, advise, aid, assist

Steep and stony path to success (saint and sanity)

counselor, council, consolation

Camp, conscience and moral perception

CIT, calm intelligent and trained (oracles)

supernumerary, power and authority of pa

Doctor and psychiatrist, turned knee and counsel

Pure lawyer, math, psychopath, press

Tyro tyrant, trek to see T Rex

Resurrection, insurrection, erection

Coups, couples, recoup losses

Obstetric obligations

RIP, remedy injured parties

Ride on, right on, wheels of justice

Sophistry, try Sophie

Coevel, co-evil

Born to suborn

Wit and acquittal

Cog, complaints or grievances

ain’t playing, plain to see

Noble calling, no bull

PR, principles and rules, prince and ruler

CH, candor and honesty

eee, exterminate existing evil

Squash them like bugs, quash, wash

Jar of flies, just and right

constable, constant bull

Impecunious impunity, impartiality, imputation

Shy shyster

Interpol interposed

Latin, nail T, frailty

HMS, high moral sense

AE, approval and encouragement

Superfluous perfidy

Predicted: delays predicated a pawn FD false dishonest defenses

ATF, adherence to form

pms, dsm, dmso, deadened moral sense

Nugatory nougat nugget nugent

AP, atheist priest

Apposite opposite

Injuria in germany

Just and necessary pun-ishment

practice, pleadings, proceedings

ignorant, illogical, imperfect

UCD, uncertainty, cost, delays

   Delay and expense

Unfounded action, and found dead

Plebeian pleas please

Elevated, refined, finished

Harm to harmony

Factitious “alternate facts”

Spectacle for spectators

Pusillanimous animus

Judge mint