Word: crooking
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...behind news cameras are trained to be as impassive, as mechanically efficient in time of crisis as surgeons or telephone girls. By hook or crook they must get that picture. Last week to the venerable dean of Paris news photographers, Louis Piston, came the opportunity to crown his adventurous career by photographing the assassination of the President of the Republic...
...pipe--a straight grained pipe for all the world to see. He looked about him. In a far corner was an English gentleman in a Burberry, whose reverent hands stroked a pipe bowl that shone like well dressed leather. Here were three others helping a fourth decide between a crook necked and a straight stemmed. And there alone was one in a suit of tweed who gazed in silence at a loaded case lost in rapture and musing upon the greatness of a god that could think of such a wood as Briar...
...maker of matches. Disclosure No. 1, coming with the arrest of three of Kreuger's associates, was that the "irregularities" were not born of falling markets and reverses but began in 1925. Disclosure No. 2 showed Kreuger in a scene that might have been taken from a common crook melodrama...
Last week Publisher Lorimer and Reporter Marcosson may have regretted their coup. For in one of the most smashing statements ever made by a firm of auditors, Ivar Kreuger was last week pronounced a crook, a swindler, a falsifier of books...
...Referee--James D. Calderwood. Time of halves--30 min. PRINCETON. HARVARD Stout, f.b. f.b., Wheeler Hinman, 3-q.b. 3-q.b., Cadman E. Dolaney, 3-q.b. 3-q.b., Slack Lee, 3-q.b. 3-q.b., Draper Kemmerer, 3-q.b. 3-q.b., Babbitt W. Delaney, s.o.h. s.o.h., Lowe Gordon, s.h. s.h., Sweeney Crook, f. f., Gorman Brooks, f. f., Dockery Leonard, f. f., Longley Kimball, f. f., Turner Henderson, f. f., Roberts Vandeusen, f. f., Oppenheimer Wise, f. f., Thorburn McAllen, f. f., Houston