Word: crooked
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...other end of the scale of argument, were the states' rights champions, who said flatly that the Senate had no Constitutional right to reject a duly elected Senator? be he a moron, a crook, a leper or anything else. Said Senator Bingham of Connecticut, a Republican: "The Senate has no divine right to keep itself 'holy and unspotted from the world.' It was created by the people of the United States to do for them certain things which they could not do so well themselves. To choose their representatives was not one of them. . . . Is the Senate empowered...
...those days the game was called "bandy", from the crook in the stick they used for striking "the cat". The stick, or "bandy", as it was called, was made of willow, and a good specimen was much prized by the owner...
...certain; ten of the jurors accepted the major arguments of the defense without coercion, while two of them, an educated man and a bank clerk who is studying law, doggedly dissented. For most of 19 hours they argued. "You can't tell me old man Doheny is a crook," said one juror. "Didn't these Navy men [onetime Secretary Denby and Captain John K. Robison, who lost the rank of Rear Admiral because of his connection with the oil scandals] go and ask him to bid on the contracts...
...probably be dropped. Not so, Mr. Fall-he remains in Washington, where he will soon go on criminal trial with Harry F. Sinclair because of the Teapot Dome oil leases. This trial will be dismally anticlimactic. For, how could Mr. Fall be a patriot at Elk Hills and a crook at Teapot Dome? Even the jurors were surprised, on hearing for the first time, that Mr. Fall had to face another criminal trial, that the Government had already won both its civil suits involving Messrs. Fall, Doheny, Sinclair...
Last week in Joliet the jury announced its verdict . . . and soon six forms will dangle on the gallows unless they are saved by further legal delay or by Gov. Len Small, crook-pardoner...