Word: crooked
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...meets him, who hears his quiet elucidation of the abstruse, becomes his friend. His researches laid the foundations of our present knowledge of reflex actions. His Integrative Action of the Nervous System is practically an engineering manual of the body's telegraph system. When a person wants to crook his finger, nerves carry the decision to the appropriate muscles. When he wishes to straighten the finger, other nerves carry the decision to the other set of muscles concerned. Professor Sherrington discovered that during either of these movements the inactive muscles are not merely passively relaxed, but are actually inhibited...
...Presently it becomes more difficult. A lugubrious old man might have done it because Jenny Wren caused his son to commit suicide. A gaunt spinster (Pauline Frederick) might have done it because her nephew wants to marry Jenny Wren's sister. So might a chipper crook (Ricardo Cortez), who gobbles peppermints and seems much interested in Jenny Wren's mail. Instead, it is the crook who solves the mystery, while a thunderstorm rages outside and a phosphorescent death mask floats about between the trees. Good sequences: flashback to reveal what the suspects say when questioned about what they...
...officers of the club are: S. H. Frieswyk '34, president: B. C. Crook '34, secretary; M. R. Rogers '33, treasurer; and R. E. Valente 2G, program chairman...
...endorsing each other's reputable candidates for the bench. Last week mousey little John Francis Curry. Tammany's boss, summoned his followers to the Wigwam to prepare a Supreme Court slate for the Manhattan-Bronx district. First nominated was Aron Steuer. 33-year-old son of Max Steuer, slick crook-defender and smart Tammany tactician. Then up rose John McNaboe, a Demo-cratic State Senator who had fought tooth & nail against the investigation of Tammany scandals by the legislative committee of which he was a minority member (TIME, April...
...ranting campaigns against what he calls "entrenched wealth." The State has less than 20 millionaires with only one vote apiece. Most of them suffered in impotent silence but Henry Hardtner, Alexandria lumber and oil man. publicly declared: "I'll never invest another cent in Louisiana while that lying crook is in power...