Word: crooked
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...JERE L. CROOK...
...Porcupine, Canada, Joslin reported that it was salted, took no samples of the rock into which the gold had obviously been pounded. Another company took such tests despite the clumsy attempt at fraud, discovered the samples averaged $25 a ton, paid cash for the claim, thinking the would-be crook had pounded gold into a gold mine unwittingly. But it developed that the crook had foreseen that line of reasoning, done a crude job of salting as bait, then an expert job of salting the samples, escaped in the double double-crossing that followed...
...have a phoney check drawn on the Globe National Bank of Denver, Colo, and passed by this notorious crook...
...thundered Roger Bigelow Merriman, Gurney Professor of History and exalted Master of Eliot House, brandishing his cane like the bloody brand of Rollo. The little lad turned pale and fled for the river, but Sir Roger, undaunted, steamed after him in hot pursuit, and, reaching out with the crook of his cane, hooked him by the belt of his trousers on the steps of Weeks Memorial Bridge. Then, muttering something about the uselessness of the Cambridge Police, Master Merriman took the law into his own hands in true baronial fashion, rendering immediate justice and chastisement with his cane...
...slangy manicurist whose assured deportment and reconditioned make-up make her virtually indistinguishable from Carole Lombard. The small blue eyes which Na ture gave her have been photographed with magenta lighting so as to look big and brown. The picture is paced in a fashion that makes the sensational crook melo dramas of last year seem as sedate as Whistler's Mother. Its talk is spoken so fast and cut so close that quoters will have a hard time remembering the good lines, an even harder time picking out the bad ones. Sample routine: Eve, taken...