Word: crookedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...teachers who are risking their freedom for the cause know full well that Minister Verwoerd will never rest until every bootleg school, every club and every knowledge crook is put out of business. After all, Minister Verwoerd has a cause of his own. "Natives," he once declared, "must be taught from childhood to realize that equality with the European is not for them...
...lamp, he saw a crouching prowler beside wife Virginia's bed. Never better in a crisis, Goody Knight, a nocturnal symphony in blue and white pajamas, leaped up, lunged toward the intruder, shouting, "I'll get him! You call the cops!" As Virginia screamed girlishly, the crook escaped over a 5-ft. wall outside. Later, Knight puffed proudly: "He sure left in a hurry...
...spirit to an earlier, gamier era-the turn of the century, when too many of the continental rich were confirming Emile Zola's savage caricatures of their class. His life was a rococo embroidery of lies, boasts, swindles, treacheries, beautiful women and rich living. He was a crook-who called himself an international financier-and he got away with it because highly placed people were impressed by his spending and his line. After he had been repeatedly exposed in court for shady dealings and declared non grata in France, he was, on the eve of his wedding...
...expert imitations of 71 ancient and modern masters. Then came the idea of "restoring" St. Mary's Gothic murals. Recalled Malskat: "I was allowed to stop fabricating French impressionists. Fey had a better job for me: I had to go back to the Middle Ages." But when "that crook Fey took all the credit and most of the money," Malskat admitted, he decided to reveal the hoax...
...script puts Father Brown (Alec Guinness) up to his usual trick of bringing a criminal not to the judicial bar but to the communion rail. His prospective proselyte : a famous international crook called Flambeau (Peter Finch). The cunning old fisher of men lets the devil bait the hook-with a pretty widow (Joan Greenwood). Widows, as somebody in the picture remarks, are irresistible because "if you are better than the first [husband], they are grateful, and if you are worse, they are not surprised...