Word: crooked
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...made Sherlock Holmes place in comparison, and concluded by launching a tirade against the sinister doings and the propaganda spread by the Soviet Government. "What I wan to do," said Mr. Burns at the beginning of his talk, "is to point out the fact of the futility of the crook ever getting away with it, and to show that there is nothing to the detective business except the same common-sense that we all have...
...acting first honors go to Mr. Gilbert in the role of the crook. It was not an easy part to handle, and he did it well. Mr. Kent and Mr. Bosworth, as the priest and the young lover, were very satisfactory. The part of the villian handicapped Mr. Charlton Miss Miller outshone the others as the emotional Betty Eustis, and entered freely into her character. The play is not the best thing that the St. James has shown, but it is far from being the worst
...have suffered from years of retirement, even the problem of who's who being as perplexing as when we first saw William Courtenay in the riddle. Be-derbied custom inspectors are fascinating creatures, especially when they soften to $30,000 bribes! And who will tire of the clever crook and the daring detective--the be-all and end-all of adventure in Long Island Society--stage version? In addition to the thrills there is plenty to laugh at, by which we mean genuine laughter...
...good story. Mrs. Lake, wife of a railroad man, is the innocent victim of the Law (capitalized). Their troubles begin when her first lover turns out to be a house-breaker and she is convicted wrongly with him. She breaks her parole, marries Mr. Lake who is a crook hater,--without telling him the sad past. Obviously this is the best way to court an embarrassing future. It does not fail; she is arrested in New York after ten years have gone by Her husband is directing his energies at the time to prosecuting a poor youth gone wrong, although...
...quandary to know who is playing the hypocrite and who is not, who is lying and who is telling the truth, and, finally, who it is that really holds the upper hand. Then, too, in order that the audience shall not for a moment stop guessing, a crook is uncovered--in the midst of what had been heretofore presumed to be the "elite" of society...