Word: crookedly
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...From the crook in jail to the Lawmaker of a country...
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...featured is "Sophie Lang Goes West," an incredibly complicated mystery story about an (East) Indian who wants to lose a priceless diamond. The story deals with a reformed male crook and an unreformed female crook who succeed in falling in love with each other through their mutual efforts to keep just a plain crook from stealing the rock...
That he was also very nearly a great crook appeared before his 75th birthday. In 1934 two younger British book experts, John Carter and Graham Pollard, published a book with the innocuous title, An Enquiry into the Nature of Certain Nineteenth Century Pamphlets. It was a devastating investigation of an authoritative Wise catalog, proved up to the hilt that Thomas James Wise had for at least twelve years invented pedigrees for worthless books and pamphlets, passed off forgeries as genuine. Oldster Wise tried to bluster it out, finally retired in silence to his Hampstead house, lived secluded there until...
...Archbishop Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, Apostolic Delegate to the U. S., whose name (pronounced chee-kone-yonny) had become to many an impious Detroiter "Chicken Annie." Three papal bulls were read and Archbishop Mooney knelt in prayer until the Apostolic Delegate led him to the throne, placed a crosier (crook) in his hand...