Word: crooked
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Author O'Hara's subjects are as topical and immediate as newspaper stories: an influenza epidemic in a Pennsylvania mining district; a bus-girl in a Coffee Pot figuring up her budget; a smalltime crook getting the double-cross from his cronies. Almost without exception his characters are knaves, fools, or a mixture of both. But Author O'Hara edits his copy so cannily that his reports of their knavish or foolish goings-on are arresting...
...being jolly with many people, to joining clubs and lodges, to his law practice. As one of Maryland's noted criminal attorneys, he saved many a notorious gentleman from jail. But last autumn when Albert Ritchie came up for election for a fifth consecutive time, jolly, likeable Crook-Defender Nice was waiting at the polls to take back the election he lost in 1919. Now he has the job of running Maryland with a depleted treasury and a Democratic General Assembly...
...some 30 operatives on the scene of the crime. From Washington, Assistant Director Harold Nathan flew to Louisville to co-ordinate the search. Inspector H. H. Clegg sped from Washington to take care of the Nashville end of the investigation. From Chicago hurried one of the littlest and ablest crook snatchers in the service-Melvin Purvis. Just past 30, Bureau Chief Purvis, University of South Carolina Law School graduate, helped with the Federal investigation of the Insull collapse, rounded up Verne Sankey and the Touhy gang, set the Chicago trap that resulted in the killing of Desperado John Dillinger last...
...knows he has financed his intentions by selling a bogus gold mine to Sir Guy Standing. At this point, with Sir Guy turning out to be twice as bogus as the mine, Jerry is forced by circumstances of his own making to remain what he has always been?a crook...
...dark brooding Barry Lyndon. Neither is he a devil-may-care fellow who is his own worst enemy. Nor is he a gay, reckless, unscrupulous adventurer of the Gil Bias order. At best he is only a sawdust figure of a gentleman, at worst only a petty crook...