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...dialogue is many notches above most comedy material, and full of little declamations perhaps characteristic of a novelist on vacation. The crook Lorre says, "Time. Squandered by Italians. Disbelieved by the English. Dallied with by the French. Changed to dollars by Americans. I think Time is a crook...

Author: By David M. Farquhar, | Title: Beat the Devil | 11/17/1958 | See Source »

...bandit showed him a card that said "Hand over all the money or I'll kill you." Adolph de la Pena, manager of a branch office of the San Antonio Savings & Loan Association and author of a forthcoming booklet called What to Do When Robbed, handed the crook $1,200 cash, stood quietly as the bandit left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 10, 1958 | 11/10/1958 | See Source »

...thief crook cynic (swimfloatdrifting fragment of heaven) trickstervillain raucous rogue & vivid voltaire you beautiful anarchist (i salute thee dive for dreams or a slogan may topple you (trees are their roots and wind is wind) trust your heart if the seas catch fire (and live by love though the stars walk backwar

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: the latest from e. e. cummings | 10/13/1958 | See Source »

Governor Faubus is supported by the people of Arkansas, and you gain nothing by calling him a liar, a crook, or by making it appear that he has stirred up this trouble. He has not. He is carrying out the mandate of the majority of the citizens of his state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 6, 1958 | 10/6/1958 | See Source »

...Crook, Line & Sinker. In Sacramento, Calif., while Joe Borrego slept soundly in his hotel room, a thief using a bamboo pole with an attached hook fished through the transom, caught Borrego's trousers, portable radio, wristwatch, and wallet containing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 15, 1958 | 9/15/1958 | See Source »

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