Word: crookedness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Their first performance in the Guild Theatre was a sellout, for few Manhattanites had ever seen a temple dance outside of tantalizing glimpses in the movies. For them Devi Dja and her accordion-bellied maidens imitated ancient frescoes, did solemn ritualistic wriggles, proved with deft, complicated gestures that Bali'...
CROOKED SHADOW-Kurt Steel-Little, Brown ($2). Private sleuth Henry Hyer falls foul of a Long Island Nazi gang who framed his young assistant for murder. The plot's intrigues are given a sombre speciousness by current events and nimble writing.
Many a psychologist conducts his researches on animal intelligence by noting how rats run through a maze. If you were a psychologist, and got hold of a race of rats showing high susceptibility to constipation, fallen arches, varicose veins, stomach ulcers, hernia, sagging viscera, poor circulation, crooked and decaying teeth...
Turned down at Annapolis because of a crooked trigger finger, Dan became a civil engineer, spent the next five years getting in & out of trouble as a map maker for insurance companies through the South. When he went to Manhattan in 1878, sold a water color of a fish for...
Pravda jeered at Communist inefficiency. Pravda railed at the Five-Year Plan. What about the trousers, made at Moscow Factory No. 1, with one leg black and the other blue? What about the padlock with keys that didn't fit, the cups with holes in them, the baby dolls...