Word: crooking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...CASE OF THE DROWNING DUCK- Erle Stanley Gardner-Morrow ($2). Perry Mason, hired to investigate an 18-year-old California murder mystery, saves a likable youngster from the results of his hocus-pocus with detergents, runs a crook to earth, and solves two contemporary poisonings. Enough plot and action for two novels...
...reason under the sun why they shouldn't. Though its ending is a little obvious and its plot at times doesn't stand up under close inspection, the picture is a fast-moving, well-acted, well-written, and excellently directed gangster story. Robert Taylor is a big-shot crook with a heart so hard that he doesn't fall in love with Lana Turner till almost the end of the picture. When he does find that he loves her the story becomes lightly trite and melodramatic, but up to then it moves along with a freshness, rapidity, and even originality...
Congressional mail grew heavy and hot. Members began to dodge and weasel. Some talked back. Snapped Washington's Representative Martin F. Smith: "What object is there in making a Congressman look like an ignoramus and a crook?" Michigan's Representative Frank E. Hook hinted darkly that the Bundles for Congress movement was a Nazi plot. But most knew, with familiar dread, that this one issue might ruin them in their home district. A repeal movement grew...
...point on the ground, reporting it back in terms of map coordinates for ground commanders. When his plane is jumped by enemy fighters, he must be handy with a machine gun if he and his pilot are to get back with their reports. And airsick or well, he must crook a crisp and unhurried finger on the key of his code radio...
Manhattan's bird-painting fans flocked last week to Fifth Avenue's Audubon House to cock their eyes and twitter over a new set of Southern bird pictures. Few bird lovers would crook their necks to look at a Rembrandt. But they will flock like wild geese to see a well-drawn picture of a roseate spoonbill's rump sticking out of a swamp. And these pictures were unusual, not only for the meticulous exactitude with which they depicted the spreading wings of buffleheads, warblers and herons, but for the realism with which they reproduced the iridescent...