Word: crooking
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...Frederick Albert Cook, onetime polar explorer, onetime oil stock crook, recently released from Leavenworth Penitentiary (TIME, March 17), was given a job as physical director of the Boys' Brotherhood Republic's summer camp at Burlington, Wis. He told a meeting of the Boys in Chicago that anyone who went to the North Pole could find a metal tube he buried there...
...from his plane two years ago, has a rich man pretending to be dead in order to assume a new identity. To humiliate his wife for not loving him the way he is, he wants to make her love him as somebody else. A surgeon changes him from a crook-shouldered, gross, bearded, bespectacled, wedge-nosed fellow, to a straight, handsome cineman-to the likeness in fact, of Warner Baxter, who plays the role in both guises. Elinor Glyn, ablest living fabricator of Sunday-supplement fiction, made it all up and did a job which, in spite of its puerile...
...Romantic, realistic or idealistic, sentimental or satiric?it does not fit in any of the categories which Occidental critics have devised to describe Occidental literature. Chinese drama is a formalized, ancient ritual, a subtle play of gesture, expression and intonation in which each turn of the eyeball, each crook of the finger, has definite significance. A Chinese actor succeeds to the extent that he masters this vast, intricate bodily symbolism, the medium of an art far older than Shakespeare's. Mei Lan-fang knew, as he thought it over, that U. S. audiences would only comprehend the simplest elements...
There is a naivete about "Babes in Toyland" which is sufficiently conscious O lend an atmosphere of sophistication smacking of the "Black Crook" era no doubt, but tremendously refreshing in a time when smartness lies chiefly in nudity and "frank" jokes. Moreover, the lyrics have much of the W. S. Gilbert playfulness that are original enough to make them thoroughly effective. It is particularly interesting to find the source of many of the clever modern witticisms in a production of the past...
...Hungary is still a country of great landed estates in the hands of a few very wealthy men. Far more than cash does the ownership of even a few acres of land bring prestige to a Hungarian peasant. "Land hunger," greed to increase their holdings by hook or crook, is a besetting vice of the Magyar. Fear lest their acres should have to be subdivided is one reason why Hungarian landowners seldom have more than one child. Tenant farmers are notably more prolific...