Word: crook
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quite a fight." Pleading the "war effort" is scarcely any excuse for this highhanded and dictatorial confiscation of a business property and this cynical violence upon the person of a respectable, though anti-New Deal, gentleman whose difficulties with Government bureaus do not necessarily brand him a common crook...
...crib, you had to buy other beds and furniture which I was only able to do which recently I got a letter from Sears that said, 'Kindly refer to this matter immediately or your salary will be garnisheed.' Well I had to get $14 by hook or crook to pay off that debt. Now I want to give you some of the Mayor's own figures, that out of 168,000 city employes in New York, 90,000 are in hock up to their ears...
...tough competition: on such big wartime stories as General Wavell's appointment as Viceroy of India and Sir Stafford Cripps's resignation from the British War Cabinet, both of which were handled on a "hold for release" basis, Reuters inexplicably scored first. Now, by either hook or crook, Reuters had done it again. Looking at the past, U.S. newsmen looked at their future prospects for Government-controlled news with foreboding...
...WOMAN IN RED - Anthony Gilbert - Smith & Durrell ($2). A jobless and desperate English girl finally gets a place in a sinister London household ruled by a red-wigged old lady with murderous intentions. Private Detective Crook rescues the damsel and clears out the villainous nest. An excellent thriller...
With characteristic drama, Tanker Patton took the surrender of Casablanca's commander with two pearl-handled automatics on his hips, a tommy-gun in the crook of his arm. But another side of Georgie Patton, the smart leadership that makes him a soldier's soldier, was clearly shown in his pre-invasion order of the day, released last week by the War Department...