Word: crooking
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Orrin Hein, another sophomore, will wrestle at 147 lbs., although junior Bob Crook will give him a stiff fight for his normal 137 spot. Crook won five of eight last year as the varsity regular...
Despite an overtime period, Adams House and Kirkland House battled to a 1-1 tie. Bob Crook tallied for the Adams squad, and the point for Kirkland was scored after a scramble in front of the nets...
...smuggler, for the guidance of Victor Mature, a dopey sleuth inexplicably praised by his Narcotics Division chief as "the best man we've got." To make himself even easier to follow, Howard drags along with him a red herring called Anita Ekberg. And he goes on a real Crook's Tour-from Manhattan to a kaleidoscopic blur of bars, boudoirs and bawdy hotels in London, Rome, Naples and Athens-all genuine-location stuff, reeled off at such a frenzied pace that it rouses longings for the good old days when movies were more leisurely and made in Hollywood...
...blighted by graft, ranging from political kickbacks for contracts to small bribes to persuade local police to let the huge machines move over restricted roads to their job sites. Says Pittsburgh Contractor Max Harrison: "When I started out in this business in 1923 everyone connected with it was a crook." While the crooks have become fewer as more and more contracts have been let by competitive bidding, graft and political jobs for incompetents are sure to plague the federal highway program. Road-building scandals have already cropped up in Illinois, Indiana and Pennsylvania, and the Government has temporarily...
...almost anybody who provides the coin. When a young hellionaire (Philip Reed) murders his wife's boy friend. Lawyer Chandler finagles an acquittal. For the next hour or so the pattern of the plot looks like something perpetrated by a drunken silkworm. Is the sheriff (Jack Carson) the crook? Is the hero the villain? Is the lawyer the defendant? Does anybody care? Actor Chandler seems to care deeply, because he tries so hard, but his performance never really hits the target. He cannot seem to distinguish between beau and Darrow...