Word: crooked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chicken which hatched a duck egg, when he first beheld his motion picture child. In short the picture is just another of those periodic and unpleasantly intimate glimpses of crime, courtrooms and cops. A totally likable, but thoroughgoing scoundrel in the book is made into an unconscious crook in the screen version. The crowning movie touch, however, was a lurking dictaphone which displayed an amazing faculty for listening in on, and recording various bits of love making incriminating evidence...
Anarchist ; bankrupt ; blackleg ; black-sheep ; brainstorm ; briber ; crook ; crooked ; damaged-goods chap ; destitute ; extreme poverty...
...tawdry and mysterious pair (male and female) from Paris. In the current newspapers are stories of a horrible bluebeard who has murdered some two score wives. The gossip group of the boarding house identify their bearded visitor with the villain. He turns out to be simply a cheap crook on his way to his girl's sanctuary in her native...
...Justine Johnstone, once a glorified girl of Mr. Ziegfeld's, returns as an actress. It may be stated without reserve that Miss Johnstone is the most beautiful blond leading woman in the land. She is not the best actress, but she is easily good enough for this inconspicuous little crook play. Miss Johnstone plays the fiancee of a young man with a prison record. Practically the entire remainder of the cast is bent upon hurling him back to the gaol. A diamond necklace is stolen and things look pretty sour for him. But he picks the very necklace...
Last week idlers in Florida beheld what is now known as "a protracted assassination." The weapon: a smooth steel club with a crook in it and a wooden haft. The assassin: a swart, puss-footed gentleman with a debonair smile, immaculate raiment and merciless accuracy of eye and wrist. He dealt his blows delicately, at infrequent intervals, seeming to select moments when he could most bitterly annoy his prey. His prey: a chunky, blond youth with a grim but cheerful smile...