Word: crookedness
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Few lawbreakers, from the drunken driver to the crooked official, ever succeed in bullying or bribing U.S. newsmen to keep their names out of the paper. Yet editors go out of their way to shield one type of criminal: the juvenile delinquent. By long tradition, or in many states by...
Skipping without explanation from the institution to the village, the movie shows the adventures of a madman in the distorted way a madman might see them. The adventures are not explained but only magnified for the expressionist settings in which the material things are emotional adornments, parts of a state...
The cumulative effect of crooked pictures and uncorrelated desk accessories, reasons the survey, is to expose the executive to "countless minor irritations dripping constantly on the nerves." Since businessmen spend half their waking lives in offices, they soon "succumb, in the prime of life, to ulcers, nervous breakdowns and heart...
Despite the small vigorish, bookmakers find baseball their No. 1 sport. The big action is indicative of baseball's freedom from corruption. No sensible bookie is interested in a crooked game; it is he who would pay off on a fixer's bet. Football ranks No. 2, well...
Shakespeare is throwing this mud at Britain's Richard of Gloucester, alias "Richard Crookback," better known as Richard III. Generations of students have gasped with horror at the monstrous doings of Britain's basest king, notorious for the murder of his young nephews ("The Little Princes in the...