Word: crooking
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Speaker Sam Rayburn: "I'll believe Stu Symington is a crook when he comes up here and tells...
...jail atop Berkeley's two-story, grey stucco Hall of Justice the old crook, with the air of a man whose lifework was done, was garrulous about his career. Back in 1920, arrested for stealing a car, he learned safecracking from a fellow convict during a seven-year stretch in the New Mexico State Penitentiary in Santa Fe. Parry had stolen around $250,000 in his career, he bragged, and he had pulled 250 jobs. He didn't feel he had been greedy. Said he: "You've got to make a lot to get along. There...
...Bribe (MGM) puts Robert Taylor to work at one of Hollywood's most dog-eared formulas: U.S. Government agent falls for girl, finds she is innocent wife (or sister) of crook he is out to get. It always winds up with the hero facing both guns and a moral dilemma...
Congenital Crooks. With H. L. Mencken he deplored the passing of the sturdy old American virtues. He was impressed when an acquaintance remarked, "The real trouble is that the average American is a congenital crook...
...CROOK IN SKIRTS...