Word: crooking
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...parks wherever he can find space, and pauses for a long look at the snow-capped Coast Range mountains across the sound before entering his office. His students worship him. So do war veterans, not one of whom he has turned away. Said Larry Mackenzie: "By hook or by crook we'll make room for them...
...catfights with dancehall girls and falls in love with the owner of the local gambling den-bold, bad Ned Trent (John Hodiak). At bottom, of course, Ned is not too bad, for on the sly he reads Longfellow and admires the rugged scenery. Besides, there is a still bigger crook in town called Judge Purvis (Preston Foster...
...Beaucerons did not know the issues by the time they went to the polls, politicians had wasted five weeks of energetic oratory, such epithets as "fascist" and "crook," and some $350,000 in campaign funds. It was a hangup show. Political organizers swarmed in, hired private homes at $25 a throw to give vote-catching parties, plied the voters with imported Scotch, handed out $5 and $10 bills for displaying candidates' pictures...
...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...