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...addition, Jarvis has undermined his own cause with wild outbursts of name-calling. He has accused his opponents of "monumental lies" and called the county of San Luis Obispo, where there is strong opposition to the initiative, "the dumbest, crookedest bunch." On one occasion he shouted at a woman heckler...
...over $80,000) back into the ministry. One recent Sunday morning he asked his rapt congregation: "When God decided to make the biggest church in the world, who did he choose to build it? He said, 'I think I'll use old Hyles. He's the crookedest stick I've got.' I'll tell you why I'm here−so people can say, 'He's not so hot, but God's a wonderful and mighty God.' " And why is newly baptized Chicago Typist May Lind there...
...Vertical Smile he mocks a handsome and vacuous presidential hopeful, Duncan Mulligan, who must be the crookedest, most wooden-headed and hypocritical Wall Street lawyer not actually in jail. The candidate has been chosen by the Eastern establishment-that is, the Justice Department, the Mafia, Wall Street and the elders of the Church of Christ, Computer. The trouble is that Mulligan's youth image is endangered because his 68-year-old mother-in-law is having an affair with a 70-year-old man. Their attraction must be cooled, because to the young American voter, any suggestion...
Typical Town? With Art Linkletter as host, and the stars twinkling on and off in a series of filmed interviews, Beverly Hills was jokingly presented as a fabled little hamlet whose 600 doctors and 500 lawyers make it "the sickest and crookedest town in the country." Then, brushing aside the jokes, the show tried to present Beverly Hills as a typical American town-and merely succeeded in stripping it of its glamour. Introduced were a churchgoing father of four (Jimmy Stewart), a home-loving, family-raising couple (Rory Calhoun and Lita Baron), a beauty who spends her time quizzing kids...
...biggest heel in contemporary U. S. fiction is a smart guy named Harry Bogen. This Bronx boy made good last year in Jerome Weidman's I Can Get It For You Wholesale as the slickest, crookedest trader in Manhattan's garment centre, who railroaded his partner to prison, ended up with plenty of dough, a fancy chorus girl named Martha Mills and an invincible conviction that he knew...