Word: crooked
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Congressional mail grew heavy and hot. Members began to dodge and weasel. Some talked back. Snapped Washington's Representative Martin F. Smith: "What object is there in making a Congressman look like an ignoramus and a crook?" Michigan's Representative Frank E. Hook hinted darkly that the Bundles for Congress movement was a Nazi plot. But most knew, with familiar dread, that this one issue might ruin them in their home district. A repeal movement grew...
...point on the ground, reporting it back in terms of map coordinates for ground commanders. When his plane is jumped by enemy fighters, he must be handy with a machine gun if he and his pilot are to get back with their reports. And airsick or well, he must crook a crisp and unhurried finger on the key of his code radio...
Manhattan's bird-painting fans flocked last week to Fifth Avenue's Audubon House to cock their eyes and twitter over a new set of Southern bird pictures. Few bird lovers would crook their necks to look at a Rembrandt. But they will flock like wild geese to see a well-drawn picture of a roseate spoonbill's rump sticking out of a swamp. And these pictures were unusual, not only for the meticulous exactitude with which they depicted the spreading wings of buffleheads, warblers and herons, but for the realism with which they reproduced the iridescent...
...explained he had bought a ticket for this train and then found he could not get a parlor car seat, so he was trying to sell his ticket, wait an hour and get a seat where he could do some work. "Every man I approach thinks I'm a crook," he said...
...anything about it if he wanted to. The thing that gets him excited is the insinuation that he has been an accessory, before or after the fact, in any crookedness. That is unjustifiable slander. Mr. Green makes the windows rattle with his shouts of self-defense. Were all bankers crooked because Richard Whitney went to prison? he asks. Is Mr. Green a crook because there are a few irrepressible extroverts among the 4,247,443 paid-up members of his union? Mr. Green's rhetorical questions go unanswered. Observers, more interested in Mr. Green's organization than...