Word: crookedness
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Song of the Road (Stellar Productions). During World War I Scottish Comedian Harry Lauder, 47, arrived in Manhattan and, with a troop of skirling, skirted bagpipers, raised the U. S. martial temper by stamping around with his crooked stick, singing We A' Go Hame the Same Way, The Wee...
Somewhere three-quarters of the way from college to Sing Sing Tyrone meets up with Dotty, and she, the scheming wench, lifts her skirt two inches above her famous knees and by this most elementary of means turns his attention temporarily away from purely pecuniary sinning. Charley Grapewin, a crooked...
Crooked genius of Pacific Finance Corp. is its founder and president, sickly, old (68) Leo Ritter, who gave hundreds of thousands of dollars of his profits to Catholic, Jewish and Protestant charities, kept a mansion in Brooklyn surrounded by a garden. Last week Usurer Ritter pleaded guilty to ten counts...
"Major Quisling," said the London Times last week, "has added a new word to the English language. . . . Aurally it contrives to suggest something at once slippery and tortuous. Visually it has the supreme merit of beginning with a Q, which (with one august exception) has long seemed to the British...
Chief specific cause of the organization's anti-Catholicism is "the dominance of crooked Irish Catholic politicians" in Massachusetts.