Word: crooked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...banquet hall, the newsstands were already piled high with Tribunes carrying McCormick's counter punch. From the eminence of a Page One box (next to the report of McKinney's speech), Bertie McCormick jabbed: "The Tribune during the last two days has shown McKinney up as a crook. He has tried to muddy the water by telling lies about the Tribune...
Next morning, McKinney snapped: "McCormick's statement will be retracted, or else." The Tribune refused to retract, but it dropped its epithet "crook" in favor of "get-rich-quick boy," and settled back to survey the rift that had been made between Chicago's Democrats and the new man Harry Truman had run in to boss the National Committee...
...movie's ammunition is no heavier than Actor Cummings' bullets. Except for Cummings, who obviously can't take these goings-on seriously, and Character Actor Will Geer, playing a sly local crook, the cast is as earnest as any posse that ever hit the trail. Watching them gallop horselessly through jungle thickets to make Miami safe for Sophie Tucker is one way of waiting for the top half of the double bill...
...pleased that you reported Professor Highet's remarks in the Nov. 12 issue . . . Mr. Highet regards Caesar as "a crook and a traitor" because he believes in political liberty and dreads the appearance in this country of a man of Caesar's intelligence and ambition. Dante regarded Caesar as the savior of the temporal world and the human counterpart of the divine Christ, because Dante believed in a world state, abhorred the misery caused by international wars, and had himself experienced the brutal anarchy of the Italian democracies...
...hold public office," and for half an hour berated him with a steady stream of vituperation heard plainly by passers-by in the corridor outside. "You are the most despicable man I ever met," he yelled. "You are a filthy, dirty liar and crook. I'm going to run you out of Washington if it's the last thing I ever do. You are crucifying an innocent...