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Perry confessed that he had to go to the dictionary to find out what wanderoos and quaggas are. While he was at it, he also looked up the word "crump." In 1783. he reported, it was an Old English adjective meaning "crooked."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Wanderoo v. Relic | 2/19/1945 | See Source »

The eighteen-year Odyssey of this country editor has included battles against gamblers, the Ku Klux Klan, crooked politicians, and race prejudice. The Independent has consistently led the town's opinion, and is now spurring it on to an unusual war service record.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Waring Sees Bright Future In Small Country Weeklies | 1/12/1945 | See Source »

Last week Rivera defended himself just as loudly, but in a different key. The newspaper attack on him, he said, was the result of his denouncing some crooked art galleries that are big newspaper advertisers. According to him, the Mexican art market abounds in skulduggery (one antique dealer last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Painters' Politics | 1/1/1945 | See Source »

Bill holds up taxis, pummels prostitutes, robs crooked gamblers, assaults swells in evening clothes-then suddenly discovers he is in love with still-innocent Jane. Jane runs away, hides-then suddenly discovers she loves Bill. For a while they are passionately happy together. But a blackmailer who knows that Bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Thriller | 11/20/1944 | See Source »

In Brooklyn, Abby and Martha Brewster (played with twinkling good humor by Josephine Hull and Jean Adair, creators of the stage roles) are looked upon as just two fluttery old maids lovingly taking care of a crack-brained nephew (John Alexander) who thinks he is Teddy Roosevelt. Little do the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Sep. 11, 1944 | 9/11/1944 | See Source »

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