Word: crookedly
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...Detectives with fake ailments haunted his waiting room. When the extortionists finally named the location for the payment, the place bristled with sleuths selling oranges, taking stock in grocery stores, sweeping sidewalks in janitors' clothing. As soon as the money changed hands, detectives shot the tires off the crooks' car, ran it into an iron fence, found two of the gang in it, beat them unmercifully. The third crook they caught later...
Joseph Ventre, a cheap little crook indicted with the dead gunman's widow, was not long in telling the police the whole story. He and a man named Pace had been living with Mrs. Coll. They had been supporting themselves by petty stickups until Mrs. Coll. accustomed to doughtier deeds, urged them to "give up this five-and-ten-cent-store business." Thereupon the trio tried to abduct a jeweler, who surprised them by running swiftly down the street instead of getting in their car. Pace went flying after him, wildly firing a revolver. The jeweler escaped unscathed...
...States. At that rate (surely below actual) the U. S. would realize some $110,000,000 per year from beer. In 23 days beer-bibbers in New York contributed $2,290,686 in Pennsylvania $1,363,704, in Wisconsin $1,314,387. By some hook, crook or accident Dry Kansas paid a Federal beer...
...eighteen-piece orchestra while John M. Green '28 a popular song writer will entertain in the downstairs Commend Room. Dancing will take place in the large Dining Room and in the Rotunda, and supper will be served shortly after midnight in the Common Room, when Green will crook...
Alexander turned him down. Though he despised Lowenstein he liked the late, equally notorious Ivar Kreuger, would never admit that he was a crook. He fell in love with a young Englishwoman at Biarritz, but it came to nothing because she insisted on marriage and his wife would not give him a divorce. He became a spiritualist. Finally he did the accepted thing, went to the U. S. as a lecturer. At his first lecture (in a Baptist church in Grand Rapids) the unexpected strains of the Russian National Anthem made him blench. Nothing else in the U. S. seems...