Word: crookedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week in Joliet the jury announced its verdict . . . and soon six forms will dangle on the gallows unless they are saved by further legal delay or by Gov. Len Small, crook-pardoner...
When there's storm, the telephone girl by hook or by crook somehow any how goes...
...Superior Court at Dedham, Mass., handed down a decision denying a new trial on the basis of new evidence which he had heard last month (TIME, Sept. 27). He concluded that one Celestino Madeiros, who confessed to the murder charged against Mr. Sacco and Mr. Vanzetti, was "a crook, a thief, a robber, a liar, a rumrunner, a 'bouncer' in a house of ill-fame, a smuggler and a man who was being convicted and sentenced to death for murder." Other evidence did not warrant the belief of his story. Also Judge Thayer could find no "fraudulent conspiracy between...
...would make a name for himself- was he not the son of a mathematics professor; was he not valedictorian of his graduating class at Hamilton College at the age of 19? Within a few years, he organized a law partnership of his own. Some people called Mr. Root a "crook lawyer." Mr. Root was not a crook, but he usually fixed things up for his clients, whether they were members of the notorious Tweed Ring or onetime (1881-85) U. S. President Chester A. Arthur. Great spawning corporations found use for the mental agility of Attorney Root. James J. Hill...
...aside from the reason for the date 1930, aside from the friendly relations of Potz with Len Small politics, thousands of decent Illinoisans were vastly irritated because this was merely the latest of many criminals to receive favor from a Governor, whom decent thousands regard as a cold-blooded crook...