Word: crooke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...screen too often. The whole cast displayed a tendency to give the usual Hollywood version of that elusive creature called the "hard-boiled egg." The grease-paint and the voice of the director were painfully present. It is rather to be suspected that the average 100 per cent impure crook would be frightened out of his God-forsaken boots by the sinister innuendoes, and dark looks of this ferocious group of actors. At least, if he wasn't we were...
...circus. He had wanted to parade a herd of fat swine through the Loop, each one labelled with a job his opponent already held, but his friends dissuaded him from such an exhibition. The Mayor then settled down to verbal abuse of Democrat Cermak. He called him "the biggest crook who ever ran for Mayor." He accused him of being anti-Irish, anti-German, anti-Polish, anti-Negro, anti-Catholic. He appealed for the support of "one hundred percenters" against "foreigners and hyphenaters" and in the next breath promised to "load the City Hall with Poles" if they supported...
...hook or crook. Big Bill obtained Kinsley's article and last week, with the mayoralty campaign at its hottest and dirtiest, he produced it for Chicagoans to read in a counterblasting pamphlet on "The Tribune Shadow" (see p. 15). It was entitled: A COLORFUL CAREER. It said: "In his three decades of political activity, he has put his unmistakable stamp upon men and affairs. In both . . . the fight over Sunday closing of saloons and the street car strike . . . Mayor Thompson emerged with increased popularity . . . His achievements were such as people could...
Last week she was summoned before Referee Samuel Seabury, ordered up into the witness stand, like any common crook, put under oath, examined and cross-examined, twisted and tangled on her magisterial conduct. Dressed in green, holding herself stiffly erect, the onetime Brooklyn girl answered questions briefly, almost insolently, in pseudo-Oxonian accent. Her inquisitors attempted to show that she was a falsifier of her court's official record, a tyrant on the bench who petulantly bossed defendants around at the peril of their constitutional rights, a dispenser of justice toward women offenders far less merciful than male magistrates...
...about to give further testimony concerning those scandals before a grand jury. Observers wondered if Potter, in order to obtain funds for attorneys' fees in his forthcoming trial, had offered to supplement what was known in the land-grant case. It was said that many an official crook would have wished his death in that event. The Cleveland Plain Dealer went so far in its news columns as to remark: "Is it possible that whoever killed Bill Potter considered . . . that in the ensuing hubbub . . . there would be a not too gentle warning to Listen Schooley to keep his mouth...