Word: crookeder
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Some of them: A Herculean Russian oaf starves his way to the U. S., falls into the clutches of a crooked wrestling manager, tastes glory briefly.
The Girl Habit (Paramount) is a farce which uses the oldest, most dependable methods for producing hilarity. Whether it succeeds or not depends entirely on the mood and taste of individuals in the audience who will find it i) screamingly funny, 2) rather silly, 3) crazy but dull. It concerns...
Cried the stranger: "What good would that do me? With nothing but crooked lawyers and crooked judges on the bench, I'd have a fat chance to collect anything, I would!"
The Rap. The producers of this melodrama have concluded that, with Manhattan newspapers bearing tales of civic corruption on their front pages edition after edition, it is high time to have a play about crooked judges and police. In spite of its sensational and opportunistic motive, The Rap manages to...
Asked whether he thought that Scotland Yard could clean up Chicago, famed Inspector Cecil Bishop said last week: "The gangsters would be easy. It would be the police that the Yard would go after. . . . The U. S. police, on the whole, are very efficient, but many of them are also...