Word: crookedness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Drive a Crooked Road (Columbia). The awkward age for most boys was the golden age for Mickey Rooney. But like most prodigies, one of the most talented child actors of modern times has had to pay for his precocity. At 24, he found himself a has-been-the public would...
The news of Drive a Crooked Road is in the evidence it gives that Actor Rooney is still a skilled actor. He plays a grease monkey who drives racing cars on the side, a lovelorn little beagle who trots adoringly after the first pretty girl (Dianne Foster) who ever gave...
No Crooked Atoms. The result, contained in a series of brilliant pamphlets, was to make coherent policy out of the deep distrust which Tories felt for the new Socialism. Rab replanted the sturdy old roots of Toryism in modern soil. The guiding principles of his philosophy were 1) a belief...
Even the Corporation's 170 buildings seem a procession of contrasts. Though the seven collegiate houses (i.e., the upperclassmen's living quarters) are uniformly Georgian, rising into golden spires out of the clutter of crooked streets, Harvard has sampled the whole history of U.S. architecture, from colonial to...
. . . There is nothing crooked about the merry beagle. That's why he is on top.