Word: crooke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...David Steuer, slick little crook-defender, very quiet, very polite, very imperturbable, sitting at Mr. Mitchell's side...
Alexander turned him down. Though he despised Lowenstein he liked the late, equally notorious Ivar Kreuger, would never admit that he was a crook. He fell in love with a young Englishwoman at Biarritz, but it came to nothing because she insisted on marriage and his wife would not give him a divorce. He became a spiritualist. Finally he did the accepted thing, went to the U. S. as a lecturer. At his first lecture (in a Baptist church in Grand Rapids) the unexpected strains of the Russian National Anthem made him blench. Nothing else in the U. S. seems...
...hero of The Great Jasper was an astrologer who was best acquainted with the stars on brandy bottles; in The MindReader Warren William was violent, spurious but nonetheless likable in the turban of a phony medium. Unlike either. Paul Bavian (Allan Dinehart) of Supernatural is a lecherous and cowardly crook who ends up where he belongs, at the end of a rope...
...about to be revealed, he gets an obliging stranger whom he has met on the train to pose as Ferraro; then he pretends to be the impostor's secretary. This leads to the simpler forms of mountain comedy when the stranger, who turns out to be an eccentric crook, is called upon for a song; also when the stranger makes advances to the village belle (Magda Schneider) in whom the singer has taken an interest. The situation is untangled when she demands a serenade. When police try to arrest the swindler they naturally get the wrong man. Then comes...
...Babbitt Stout, l.c. l.c., Meiklejohn Craig, r.c. r.c., Howard Halton, r.w. r.w., Potter Buffum, s.o.h. s.o.h., Sherman Duffus, h.b. h.b., Supper McAllen, f. f., Nazro Babcock, f. f., White Campbell, f. f., Oettinger Davis, f. f., Thorburn Reed, f. f., Armstrong Stewart, f. f., Oppenheinger Gillespic, f. f., Cadman Crook, f. f., Witmusch...