Word: crooked
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Olympia. Laura Hope Crews' impersonation of a proud princess, perplexed with imminent scandals, reached one of its peaks in the second act. She had just been told that the officer with whom her daughter had been having a flirtation was really a crook called Myrovsky. The effect of this information the princess showed, less by twitchings of her face than by the expression of her knee, which trembled while she sat still in a chair...
While the City Sleeps. Because Underworld, crook cinema written by Ben Hecht, made record returns for Paramount a few months ago, hundreds of hideaways, spitting gats, Big Boys, molls, bulls, rods, and mobs have been photographed. Now Lon Chaney as a very plainclothes detective with bunions strides painfully through a convincing picture about bad men and a good girl...
...Think of the humiliation and degradation which touches all of us when such a fine-spirited, straightforward, clean-minded and loyal man as Governor Smith is called a drunkard and a political crook...
...Other inseparables: vinegar and oil, Damon and Pythias, warp and woof, odds and ends, pen and ink, man and wife, flotsam and jetsam, hook and crook, cup and saucer, might and main, sixes and sevens, beer and skittles, bread and butter, jot and tittle, flora and fauna, sweetness and light...
...such pieces nowadays, the fight-talk, crook-talk and woman-talk is entertaining and inoffensive because it seems to come from the interstices, rather than the undercrust of contemporary society...