Word: crookedness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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THE CROOKED WAY (247 pp.)-Elizabeth Spencer-Dodd, Mead ($3).
The Crooked Way is Mississippi-born Elizabeth Spencer's second novel, and it is almost a compendium of all the fashionable faults likely to be found in a young highbrow novelist. Her characters seem scooped from Faulkner rather than observed from life. Her technique of letting several characters tell...
Boston "Crooked"
The bitterest complaint was that East German machinery, consumer goods, medicines and food are being shipped off to Russia. All that is left for the Germans is shoddy garments and ill-tasting food. "There are shirts available only for men boasting neck measurements of 42 or 43 centimeters," groused a...
The U.S. basketball fan, who found last year that he was being bilked by gangsters and crooked college boys, is a wide-eyed diehard. The fans may suspect any one of their current heroes of being on a gambler's payroll, but they are pouring back into the big...