Word: crookeder
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Those who crowded up front saw a pudgy man with cheeks like apple dumplings, blue eyes beneath crooked restless eyebrows, the merest foam-flecking of sandy gray hair on his bald pink pate, a long black cigar clenched at a belligerent angle above his bulldog jaw. From the sleeves of...
"I can't promise any lower tax rate in Cambridge in the immediate future, but I will say that the taxpayer will get more for his dollar. I want to buck the theory that politics are absolutely crooked."
...that in the long run the laws of economics will fix things up; that, besides, he couldn't do anything about it if he wanted to. The thing that gets him excited is the insinuation that he has been an accessory, before or after the fact, in any crookedness. That is unjustifiable slander. Mr. Green makes the windows rattle with his shouts of self-defense. Were all bankers crooked because Richard Whitney went to prison? he asks. Is Mr. Green a crook because there are a few irrepressible extroverts among the 4,247,443 paid-up members...
Scene III: The two men face each other on deck. Franklin Roosevelt's cigaret is burning brightly at the end of his long holder. Winston Churchill's long black cigar, crooked between his fingers, has gone out. The two men shake hands gravely, then the President makes a...
Many a curiously bent tree growing in the Mississippi Valley and the Great Lakes region is no mere freak of nature. It is the handwork of long-dead Indians. In the July Scientific Monthly Geologist Raymond E. Janssen of Evanston, Ill. tells how he settled the puzzle of the crooked...