Word: crooke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...revealed that Adams had made four wills quite close together in point of time. In addition to the will which names Harvard the chief beneficiary there are bequests which give the $70,000 estate to Henry Gordon Thistle, male nurse and masseur employed by Adams, and to Jesse D. Crook, an old friend and associate in the practice...
...From the crook in jail to the Lawmaker of a country...
...note: Wow) * * * * * crook...
...featured is "Sophie Lang Goes West," an incredibly complicated mystery story about an (East) Indian who wants to lose a priceless diamond. The story deals with a reformed male crook and an unreformed female crook who succeed in falling in love with each other through their mutual efforts to keep just a plain crook from stealing the rock...
That he was also very nearly a great crook appeared before his 75th birthday. In 1934 two younger British book experts, John Carter and Graham Pollard, published a book with the innocuous title, An Enquiry into the Nature of Certain Nineteenth Century Pamphlets. It was a devastating investigation of an authoritative Wise catalog, proved up to the hilt that Thomas James Wise had for at least twelve years invented pedigrees for worthless books and pamphlets, passed off forgeries as genuine. Oldster Wise tried to bluster it out, finally retired in silence to his Hampstead house, lived secluded there until...