Word: crookedness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Attorney he had acquired a passionate hatred of and contempt for racketeers. The chance to fight them was too good to miss. Big-Game Hunt-Prosecutor Dewey made one thing plain at the outset. His investigation was going to be unlike any other in the city's history. He...
In a less ambitious feat of imagination, Playwright Anderson has given High Tor a young owner named Van Dorn (Burgess Meredith, who also lives within a couple of rifle shots of the hill). "Van's" problem is to keep High Tor, which a traprock company is eager to buy...
Particulars of the pact were of minimum importance compared to the maximum import of its having been signed at all. In British and Italian quarters its phrasing was called "deliberately loose," the object of this being to permit the British Cabinet to keep the boiling antiFascism of Laborites in the...
"Lord Barrenstock and Epicene, "What's it to me that you have been "In your pursuit of interdicted joys "Seducer of a hundred little boys . . . ? "Tis not for these unsocial acts, not these "I wet my pen! . . . "But oh! your tie is crooked and I see "Too plain you...
Like the poor, the prophets and holy men of Dorchester are always with us. That crusader against the red menace. that protector of the young, Mr. Dorgan, gladly offered himself up on the altar of publicity for his cause last spring. Another doughty warrior of Dorchester now appears upon the...