Word: crookedly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Death by Drowning. When the pathologist arrived he found a little water still standing in the crook of the dead woman's arm. That hardly tallied with the story of vigorous efforts to restore respiration. And there was no sign that Elizabeth Barlow had splashed or struggled. Death was due to drowning, but she had let herself drown in a relaxed, apathetic if not comatose state...
...Crook Into Cop. Inside this velvet-lined grab bag there was something for almost everyone. For the neutralist powers of Asia, there was the firm reference to "early withdrawal of foreign troops"-a phrase which, to their distress, was missing from the Norwegian resolution. In the renewal of the Arab League pledges of noninterference in one another's affairs, there was a sop to U.S. and British concern over indirect aggression...
...through his crew-cut hair. Badmen usually underestimate McGraw, but all women smile seductively at him. He hits it off fine with most cops, who overlook his occasional infractions in the line of duty. The most human of all TV's hireling snoopers, McGraw has sometimes mistaken a crook's pocketed finger for a gun, has dived prudently for cover when a real equalizer was pulled...
Perry Mason (Sat. 7:30 p.m., E.D.T., CBS). Erie Stanley Gardner's famed lawyer-sleuth (Raymond Burr) is constantly embroiled in the best-plotted intricacies of TV's mystery shelf. His worst enemy is no crook but District Attorney Hamilton Berger (William Talman), whose batting average against Mason's brilliant courtroom tactics is .000. His closest pals are a private detective (William Hopper) and an even more private secretary (Barbara Hale), whom Mason keeps late at the office and takes with him on business trips. A true gentleman. Mason has no stomach for rough stuff, but even...
...they brush shoulders-and Mlle. Zizi, a jealous old gentlewoman of at least 30, is beginning to brandish her falsies. Three-quarters of the way through her bee-loud glade, Author Godden starts dropping her surprises. Eliot, it seems, is no English gentleman after all: he is an international crook who, as a French paper prettily puts it, "collects precious stones, chiefly diamonds." As for Paul, he climbs up to Joss's bedroom and is about to collect something more precious than stones, when Eliot relegates him to the compost heap with a single knife-stab. Suddenly, the beautiful...