Word: crooke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...required to portray a character not like the rest of humankind, and yet not strange enough to be got over with a bit of heavy "character acting," Dr. Haggett, finding that Chris' pictures are immensely valuable just after he has given them away to a crook, is in a rather difficult position; when he finds further that his maid Abby has one more of the pictures, and sells it for twenty-five thousand, only to have her refuse to part with it, he is in a still more trying spot; and when he learns that Abby has seventeen...
...glory to individual Representatives. The coming session was the one that most voters would have firmly in mind when they march to the polls next November to choose the 74th Congress. Last week each & every Representative was determined to make a Capitol record before summer which, by hook or crook, would return him to his present seat one year hence...
...Foxe was what passed for a gentleman's daughter in those parts. When she married one of her father's tenants her father never spoke to her again. But Judith schemed to get her youngest son Leo raised to the noble status of gentleman and, by hook & crook, a better education than his brothers and sisters. She wanted him to be a doctor, but Leo was too common a clay. He did little but drink and wench, letting his property slip through his fingers. Then a meeting with a Fenian fired his blood. He got ten years...
...hero in the mind of the woman he loves. Love is a strange thing indeed. He is married. He and his wife have adopted a baby. But he is frank about it. He is sincere in his love. He is infatuated. He is mad. But he is not a crook. Poor, deluded Brown--he fell for that she-wolf in sheep's clothing." TERTIUS...
...Cast as a very domesticated New York detective, his manner while describing the routine horrors of a policeman's life is excruciatingly bland. "Well," he confesses to the actress's family, "we aren't much worried about this case. We don't care if one crook murders another crook- especially if they are out of town crooks." He does something for the actress her doctor could not do. He releases her from the obsessing fear that she has killed her husband herself while under his hypnotic influence, restores her self-confidence. In gratitude she promises...