Word: crookedly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...methods, however, were unique. He psychoanalyzed Chicago politics by the "word association" test. Specimen Chicagoans, from steer-stabbers to brokers, were told to blurt out their immediate reactions to the examiner's key words. "Alderman" suggested the professor. "Grafter," quickly replied one citizen. Another said "crook." Another said "big cheese," another, "bay window." "City hall," posed the professor. "Politics . . . graft . . . corruption," came the spontaneous reactions...
Star of Bengal. Novelist-Essayist Christopher Morley has already produced two oldtime dramas (After Dark, The Black Crook) on the dismal Jersey shores just across the Hudson River from Manhattan. Since their ancient modes seemed absurd to modern playgoers, these Hoboken theatricals became a fad. Audiences which were always rowdy, however fashionable, hissed the villains, cheered the heroes. Mr. Morley's latest attempt to make money exploits Joan Lowell, touted literary hoax-mistress (The Cradle of the Deep). It is a maritime melodrama, written by her husband, which permits her to maneuver in the shrouds and employ the nautical...
Shubert Apollo -- Black Crook--8.15 o'clock -- Hoboken's Hissing Classic...
Mlle. Maya Keila, prima ballerina in Christopher Morley's revival "The Black Crook," is not much interested in Harvard students or in college men in general. Or such was the statement she made in an interview which took place during the matinee last Saturday behind the scenes in the Shubert Apollo Theatre...
Shubert Apollo--Black Crook--8.15 o'clock--Hoboken's Hissing Classic...