Word: crooked
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...improper about this procedure. Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes was for a bill introduced in the last Congress to set up a separate court budget. Then he reconsidered, quashed the measure. What gave him pause was the awful thought that a comptroller appointed by him might some day turn crook and thus impugn the Supreme Court itself...
Even before the entrance of formalized government work in the field of social security and relief problems, the machine was at best a palliative. "It worked by hook or by crook. Its rehabilitative influence was accidental rather than purposeful; being essentially a means to an organizational end, it met despondency in a haphazard way, coping with immediate aspects as they presented themselves...
...county jail at the invitation of the kind-hearted constable (Irvin S. Cobb). Finding confusion in the affairs of the town newspaper run by Martha Allen (Fay Bainter), he ends it by putting things right between Judy (Jean Parker) and her hotheaded boy friend (John Beal), unmasking the town crook (Lyle Talbot) and building a radio station. Principal cinema attribute of the late Will Rogers was to make it seem that Right not only triumphed on all occasions but that it did so without working up a perspiration. Strict adherence to the Rogers formula gives The Arkansas Traveler, first picture...
...Tell me if I'm screwy for having the idea that, being the President's son, they'd have called me a crook no matter what business I'd entered...
Last week, Panama decided to start collecting, by hook or crook. Through the authoritative newspaper El Nuevo Diaro, President Juan Demostenes Arosemena let it be known that on a $3,500,000 loan floated in the U. S. in 1923, Panama would fail to make the $62,000 payment due this week...