Word: crooking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weaker or more rational man might have conceded by now that the jig was up. But Argentina's Vice President, Minister of War and Secretary of Labor conceded nothing. By hook or by crook, he was still determined to be elected President...
With the exception of Frisco, Shady Lady is an unfamiliar concoction of several very familiar ingredients. If Ginny, who sings in the nightclub part of Alan Curtis' gambling joint, can get her lovable old crook of an uncle (Charles Coburn) to go straight, then Assistant District Attorney Paige (whom she likes a lot) may not discover her uncle's pungent past-and maybe she and Paige can get married. While these major threads, and innumerable minor threads, are being tangled and untangled, Ginny gives out tooth-somely with three new songs-one of which, In Love with Love...
...early days (there was) a Perspiration Handicap once a week. Each entry would roll up a sleeve, crook an elbow, and . . . see how fast he could fill an empty C-ration can. Eight minutes, 41 2/5 seconds was the record, achieved by a fat but fading major. . . . Finally, the contest had to be discontinued. 'The boys are just plumb sweat out,'" said one of the officers...
...Crook & Gunman. To the favorable and the unfavorable testimony, the Marshal showed the same stoic indifference. But two witnesses jolted the old man out of his apathy. Into a booing, hissing court, under heavy escort, came two of France's most hated men : suave Count Fernand de Brinon, former Vichy ambassador to Ger man-occupied Paris, and defiant Joseph Darnand, once head of Vichy's hated militia. The court had called them despite the refusal of Prosecutor Andrá Mornet to hear the evidence of "a crook and a gunman...
...servicemen was not only "desirable but essential." He had a big job recruiting entertainers, who were leary of the hardships and pay (the U.S.O., which is subsidized by the National War Fund, pays run-of-the-mill entertainers $100 a week, topflight volunteers $10 a day). But by hook & crook, Lastfogel rounded up thousands of smalltime entertainers. These troupers, formed into small variety companies, were (and still are) the backbone of U.S.O.-Camp Shows...