Word: crooked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Stretch, Sellers plays a "wide boy" (small-time crook) who has a chance to "hoist . . . a coupla million nicker" (steal ?2,000,000) but unfortunately finds himself "in boob" (in jail). Fortunately, Jailbird Sellers inhabits a gilded cage that contains a radio, a wine cellar, a fully equipped kitchen, a cuckoo clock, an amiable tabby. Milk and papers are delivered every morning by the local tradesmen. The turnkey knocks timidly before entering and walks the cat upon request. Morning massage by a cellmate is followed by classes in basket weaving, fretwork and (when the warden looks the other way) safe...
...last and best and true and only meal, thought Mr. Perley as he descended at noon and swung east on the beat-up sidewalk of Forty-fifth Street. Just ahead of him was the girl from the reception desk. I am a little fleshed up around the crook of the elbow, thought Perley, but I commute good...
...Thomas are two of the most expert bop-busters in the business. They, along with the staff of the city Youth Board, are the reason why 1960 has seen only ten teenage gang killings, compared with 23 a year ago. Y.D.I. is essentially Vaus's baby. An experienced crook, Jim Vaus in 1949 got religion after meeting Billy Graham, turned evangelist himself, wrote a moderately successful book titled Why I Quit Syndicated Crime. His new vocation took him to East Harlem, where he became convinced that he could turn his talents to more practical purpose than pulpitry. Moving...
...going to study your way into a love of poetry," Robert Frost told the enthralled multitudes at Sanders Theatre yesterday afternoon. Not formal training but education "by hook and by crook" is necessary to become a good night reader--a reader who can fall in love at first sight...
Since his introduction last July, the poetry-spouting crook now villainously co-starring in Chester Gould's comic strip. Dick Tracy, had been identified only by his surname: Ogden. Last week, however, Cartoonist Gould finally inked in the poet's full handle: Providence M. Ogden. In the city room of the Providence, R.I. Journal, there was as much indignation as amusement...