Word: crookedness
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The straight sat next to the crooked: a Harvard business-school-type soaked up the bennies (beneficial rays) in his madras shorts as his girl friend bit "Good Luck Dean Monro" balloons. In the adjacent houses, the complacent clique frugged on their fire escape until the cavalry told them: "Ya...
The Moon and Six Guineas is a brittle-brutal study of a once fashionable painter, John Howland, a "Bostonian and Mayflower descendant, educated at Dixwell Latin School and Harvard." He made his first mistake in becoming an artist; his second was to leave-together with his corny canvases-a portfolio...
Then, "You Can't Live Crooked (and Think Straight)": "If you want to save your nation Before it's too late, Let's stop our crooked living, and--think straight!" And "Freedom Isn't Free": "From Vietnam to Alamein, Our fighting men will have died in vain, If we just...
In reversing Samuel Sheppard's murder conviction last June, the Supreme Court suggested that the bar and the police should button their own lips-thus silencing the key source of prejudicial news without curbing freedom of the press. But the press fears that even this will violate the "public...
Just Desserts. The pair of lawyers could have-perhaps should have-done their routine at the Palace. During one involved inquisition, Bryan quoted a Buddhist monk to the effect that Buddhism is an "agnostic" religion. Agnostic Darrow wanted to know what the monk looked like. "How tall was he?" Replied...