Word: crooked
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...months ago, at least, that Carlos the Crook tried to inveigle the lion-hearted Andy Gump into buying fake oil stock. And about a month later the same scoundrel, Carlos, treacherously stole the modest bank roll of the fair Widow Zander...
Loews Orpheum--"The Black Bird", with Lon Chaney. Owen Moore runs away with this picture and the part of a gentleman crook. Renee Adoree and Lon Chaney turn in their usual competent performances...
...Only one character in the picture is honest, and he turns out to be a policeman, which is a good enough joke in itself to show the irresponsible tendencies of the whole production. Along towards the end, however, just when we had hopes of witnessing a college between the crook waltress and the more crooked butler, the picture suddenly went frightfully mushy. Everybody developed a conscience, forsook the honest profession of thievery, and left this department with somewhat of that same feeling of sentimental lunacy that is brought on by a few notes of "That Letter Edged in Black...
...LAST OF MRS. CHEYNEY - Ina Claire as the exceedingly lady-like crook who got caught...
...pays him back. Ten dollars isn't much, but it's the principle of the thing. And sometimes these informal loans involve real principal. Then Speed and Joe, once good friends, reach a snarling estrangement. One calls the other "tightwad," "usurer"; is himself called "dead beat," "sponger," "crook," "bummer...