Word: crooked
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There sits His Majesty on a carpeted dais. Over his head a monstrous curtain is furled with droops of golden cable. His crown rests beside him; a sceptre leans in the crook of his arm; a sword is propped against his leg; the royal coat of arms, painted on the wall, has the look of an automobile trademark. And in the stiffness of the paper-doll body under its innumerable ribbons, sashes, badges and magnificent sweep of falling draperies-in the exaggerated dandyism of the spindling white-stockinged legs, in the pointed hands, in the dainty bearded face, burns...
...Unholy Three. It was President Wilson who used to read detective stories to ease his mind. He would have liked The Unholy Three. It is a crook tale about a ventriloquist, a midget, a strong man, a sap and a girl. The very complicated plot, the murder, the trial and the solution are too intricately contrived for reworking here. They contain hate and happiness, diversion and distress. Lon Chaney plays a ventriloquist who turns into a grandmother...
Under the Rouge. Crook stories carry on. This one deals with a lady pickpocket, protected by the hero. He goes up to the health farm and marries her. And if you like Tom Moore the acting is good enough...
Paths to Paradise. "Darling/' said Raymond Griffith, master crook, to Betty Compson, his accomplice, when their speedy roadster had just eluded 100 motor cops, "I feel we're doing wrong. Let's turn around and take the diamond necklace back where it belongs." They do so; another chase speeds up an excellent comedy...
...FALL GUY?Fussy little worm in a cheap Harlem flat who turns to sting the crook trying to step...