Word: crooked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brother Joseph, munitions crook, Brother Laurent, biologist. Best sequences: ratlike professional jealousies between two of Laurent's superiors; Laurent's innocent involvement in a cumulative scandal culminating, on the brink of World War I, in the ruin of his career. Worst: goo-goo over Cecile and her baby. The book's literary style, if any, is murdered by a have-you-seen-the-garden-of-my-aunt translation...
...second feature, "Earthbound," is a passable likeness of "Topper." Stoutish, ectoplasmic Warner Baxter plays Jiminy Cricket to pretty Andrea Leeds. She, shapely and substantial, makes the show and catches the crook...
Paris Gazette tells of many others besides the Trautweins: of Wiesener, a man of talent sold out to the Nazis, who salves what conscience he has in writing a brilliant, corrupt biography of Beaumarchais, and a secret journal; of Raoul his son, a bright, sensitive young crook, who tries leading a French-fascist Youth Movement, writes a scalding novel about his father; of Elli, a "helpless" and much-helped refugee who, flufily shouldering her betters out of the way, manages to make out very nicely...
Quite a few get printed by hook or by crook; the Harvard Press publishes the Annual Inglish Lectures, while Law School addresses appear in the Harvard Law Review. But even through these channels not enough lectures become available for popular consumption. All too many talks, discussions, forums, symposiums, and conferences flash briefly in the scholastic skies, and then disappear into the "unknown bourne...
Germany's No. 1 economic war problem is to persuade, by hook or crook, her neighbors to produce and deliver to her much-needed war materials. The Allies' big job is to persuade them not to. Last week's action on the trade front went mostly in favor of the Nazis...