Word: crooke
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...hero of this show gets so fed up with fishing that he goes off to the big city and becomes a successful crook. Meanwhile, a fellow racketeer in the city decides to reform and takes up fishing. He drowns. There's a moral to all this, but "Raging Tide" won't make you wriggle in your seat...
...Stiff, formal Captain Harry Crook-shank, 58, a Tory whose shiny top hat, worn in the House of Commons, enrages Labor backbenchers, became Leader of the House. Anthony Eden had originally got the job, but decided that he couldn't do right by it and be Foreign Secretary too. Crookshank, as Minister of Health, will also run the socialized health service...
Julius Caesar's Commentaries, the primer of classical scholarship, said Highet, is a case in point. "I happen to think that Caesar is a crook and a traitor.* The reason I think so is that he trained a personal army in order to assassinate democracy in his own country. His book is full of evasions and alterations of facts. It's really a propaganda document, but most students are given the impression that Caesar was merely setting down the facts...
...nearly a century the French dictionary Larousse (a sort of Gallic Webster's) defined "Greek" as meaning, among other things, roué, fripon, escroc-1) rakehell, 2) swindler, 3) crook. For nearly a century the Greek government has bombarded the Quai d'Orsay with complaints, to no avail. That, said Larousse stiffly, is the way Frenchmen talk, and that is the way they must be reported...
...city machines were a lot huskier then than they are today. They recruited thousands of people like Clara Boyle, who considered themselves and were considered by their neighbors as decent, God-fearing men & women. (It would never have occurred to Clara Boyle that her friend Tom Pendergast was a crook; they both attended the Visitation Roman Catholic Church.) The machine politicians of the precincts and the city-hall corridors had ethical standards which were, in all the everyday affairs of life, as high as those of their communities. In politics, however, they had a special code: it was not wrong...