Word: crooked
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...Shannons of Broadway-HOOFER AND WIFE FOOL SMALL TOWN CROOK MUSICAL...
...roistering men, flasks full of cockeyed consomme, petting nights and sad-eyed days -one just knows that Elinor Glyn wrote the original story. But old irony played its ace and The Mad Hour turned out to be tragedy. Cuddles married a rich man, got mixed up with a crook, was sent to jail, lost her child, committed suicide...
Director Curtiz had opened this picture with such simple symbolism as a skinny cat sniffing garbage pails, following with a tale whose luridity dated back to the Black Crook, famed thriller. This one paraded the emotions of Rose Shannon, night club dancer who loved a handsome bank robber (Conrad Nagel). Eventually, wildly, wrongly, she is suspected of stealing, is arrested, scared under the third degree, where the spoken dialogue is first heard. To end this whole experimental footage, the actors use the academic, classic embrace...
...good friend, almost an assistant, of Bridgeport bluecoats. When a New Haven merchant suspected him of selling stolen jewels and telephoned for a Bridgeport policeman to come down, the policeman arrived to greet Mr. Delaney like a long-lost buddy, was surprised to find his buddy a crook. Thus Mr. Delaney went to jail...
There King Alexander I, spruce, compelling, received Statesman Velja Vukitchevitch. Together these good friends had just broken the long deadlock among Jugoslav political blocs (TIME, Feb. 20) which had seemed to defy the possibility that a cabinet-any cabinet-could be formed. The wily Vukitchevitch by hook & by crook and King Alexander by imperative royal command had again induced the Jugoslav "national minorities" to enter a coalition headed by the "Radical" (reactionary) Vukitchevitch, now the chief bulwark of the Throne...