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Word: crookes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...FALL GUY?Fussy little worm in a cheap Harlem flat who turns to sting the crook trying to step...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: The Best Plays: Jun. 15, 1925 | 6/15/1925 | See Source »

...FALL GUY?In which a small and futile fellow forges suddenly forward into a crook detector and a hero...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: The Best Plays: May 18, 1925 | 5/18/1925 | See Source »

...plot has many a kink and these who add most to the humor of the lines are Miss Hitz as Susie, Bernard Nedell, the "wise" crook. Houston Richards, who has no small gifts as a cone and John Collier, the harassed husband

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 5/15/1925 | See Source »

...Thin Ice. The crook world has a woman's pure love showered on it again. This cinema unfolds the manner in which an artful dodger, Tom Moore by name, has his seedy character disinfected by artless Edith Roberts. To regain some lost bank loot through her, a gang of robbers plant Moore in her confidence as her long-lost brother-and romance becomes imperative. Still, it's much better than it sounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Mar. 16, 1925 | 3/16/1925 | See Source »

...Gold and In the Land of Youth is thoroughly at home in New York City. He would be at home anywhere, in a curious, amused, detached sort of way. They tell of Irish charm. One sees it in varying quantities. James Stephens has more of it in the crook of his little finger than any other Shamrock wearer I have ever met has in his whole carcass. Small, wiry, with an effort almost of crookedness in the bend of his walk, with a face crinkled and traced by the ways of much laughter, he is constantly making his little jokes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: James Stephens | 3/9/1925 | See Source »

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