How To Use Crooked In A Sentence

A lot of them were marked, or born wrong, or crooked, or scabious, looking for help from the Nazarene, for some panacea. A ROOMFUL OF BIRDS - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES 1990
He has liver disease now; but his sickness is a judgment of God, and he will die crooked. WHEN ALICE TOLD HER SOUL
Presently I saw a man leaning on a two-strand barbed-wire fence, the wires fixed not to posts but to crooked tree limbs stuck in the ground.
If the cylinder does not line up with the bore vertically, you are plumb out of luck since the base pin frame holes could be drilled crooked or the frame warped from heat treatment or stress.
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There will be no more duplicity, crookedness, and desire for name, fame, and prestige.
Just as the crooked mass of shiny-leafed buttonbush, and even the swamp dwelling mayapple - its umbrella-like leaves shading sweet yellow fruit - need fire's fertilizing hand, so too does the wildlife.
He had a stern, squarish jaw, and a rather crooked nose.
It's closely followed by ‘cosmetic recontouring’, which straightens crooked teeth with a few additions and subtractions.
Suddenly they stop, statue-still, their knees crooked around one another, like fingers pulling on a wishbone.
He opened his mouth - which was curved up with a slightly crooked grin - to speak, but thankfully the elevator tinged and the doors hissed open.
In many of the worlds' bigger airports, the homeless and the dispossessed and the plain crooked are increasingly congregating, realising the scope they provide for buckshee food, drink, beds and bathroom facilities.
The witch took the stick, waved it at the girl and said: "then this is your fortune; _through the woods and through the woods and out with a crooked stick_. Woodland Tales
The sign was crooked and the word orphanage misspelled in faded red paint.
Omi crooked a finger for the waitress who offered the bill with subtle deference, and Omi paid it with subtle superiority.
They admired the varied vistas of the narrow, crooked streets, and noticed how convenient it was to have shops and residences and even small factories mixed up together.
If you lead along a straight way, who will dare go by a crooked one? Times, Sunday Times
It's so durned crooked they hav to burn crooked wood in the ingine. Uncle Josh Weathersby's "Punkin Centre Stories"
Her crooked fingers drag across the skin stiff as twigs.
He moved on down a thin, crooked scar in the cliffs, hearing the aircraft noise louden once more. THE LAST RAVEN
The people who perpetrated that buy-back scheme are despicable, deceitful, dishonest, and crooked.
Young as she was, I was struck, throughout our little tour, with her confidence and courage with the way, in empty chambers and dull corridors, on crooked staircases that made me pause and even on the summit of an old machicolated square tower that made me dizzy, her morning music, her disposition to tell me so many more things than she asked, rang out and led me on. The Turn of the Screw
Whole families went about with crooked legs or twisted shoulders. The Search for Justice - a history of Britain and the British people Volume III
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Crooked fingers of lightning nearly lit the sky afire, and the thunder crackled like shots from a cannon.
He moved unpredictably like lightning, zigzagging towards Kitsumi in a crookedly random path.
The scuttlebutt I hear is that a lot of the leading Illinois Democrats (i.e. the crooked Blue Dog ones who are all going to end up indicted anyway as long as Pat Fitzgerald doesn't run out of time) want Hillary and the only reason Obama has as strong a base as he does in his home state is because of Penny Pritzker's bullheadedness in getting him networked and funded. Reid Allowed Vote On Mukasey In Exchange For Military Funding Bill
As for the Fakahatchee, it has ten species of orchids that exist nowhere else in the United States: the crooked-spur, the false water spider, the rattail, to name a few. Pam Grout: Sarah Palin, Jane Fonda and Those Suffering From Orchidelirium Were Here
I was going to say unbelievable but no it is all too believable with the whole crooked European Empire.
The crooked network, centered in New York City, Chicago and Atlanta, reportedly used several grifts.
The woman held her palms up and smiled and the man had his arms out to her, his hands like hooks, and protruding point-outward from his breastbone was a crooked knife blade with a wetness on it. More Than Human
And why should we live in boring, utilitarian spaces when we could live in grottoes and crooked caverns?
Woman, he declares, is the "crooked piece of man," and man has no greater misfortune than that he must commune with her to reproduce: it is "the foolishest act a wise man commits in all his life. Was It Something I Said?
Up to 11million of the gang's profits were laundered by crooked staff at a bureau de change. The Sun
Paré gives a case of reversion, and of crooked hands and feet; and Barlow 11.54 speaks of a child of two and three-quarter years with kyphosis, but mobility of the lumbar region, which walked on its elbows and knees. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
She might expose his crooked business deals to her tax inspector brother.
He was perhaps the crookedest lawyer I had ever come across; it still smarted that eighteen months before I had been forced to abandon a case against him through the ruthless machinations of his patron, Richard Rich. Excerpt: Revelation by C.J. Sansom
crookedness" or dishonesty in his dealings to slam him with. Undefined
With its insane mix of loves-me-loves-me-nots, switcheroos, flawed motives, crooked laughs and crying babies, it is one of cinema's most buoyant genres.
The second face was withered and ancient, with watery eyes peering out from above a crooked hooked nose.
We were knackered by the time got back ... but on the way we went via the "crookedest" street that just winds up and down ... its at the end of the road our hotels on ... TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com
A straight foot is not afraid of a crooked shoe.
You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
A pair of thugs demand that she tell them where she keeps the stash of diamonds they are certain her crooked father left her.
Henry Farrell on Crooked Timber defends the European Parliament: ... complaints about the self-importance and amour-propre of MEPs seem to me to really miss the point. Things that caught my eye
Sures must have had tongue in cheek when she contrived Ghirlandina, a cast-paper relief of an old, crooked, leaning tower, wonderfully abraded and polychromed.
He who laughs at crooked men should need walk very straight.
A lot of them were marked, or born wrong, or crooked, or scabious, looking for help from the Nazarene, for some panacea. A ROOMFUL OF BIRDS - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES 1990
Straight trees have crooked roots.
Back then, the pale, scrawny 14-year-old with bandy legs and crooked teeth was as far removed from the healthy, sporty look epitomised by Cindy Crawford and Elle MacPherson as you could get.
Many are shaped like small potatoes but others are curiously long and curved like crooked sausages.
* The back door, featuring a panoply of graffitied street tags, had been kicked in so often it sat crooked in the frame. THE KILL CLAUSE
The Indian American dream is paved with crooked paths, detours, and not infrequent derailment.
Maybe it came out a little crooked. Christianity Today
She had the hazel, walnut eyes under thick lashes, shoulder-length dark brunette hair that fell in a cascade of natural curls, and a slightly crooked smile that made guys melt.
He stretched out, his arm bent and crooked, and grasped the paper in between his fingertips.
But it's done nothing to silence the critics, who are still baying for a new, independent body to tackle crooked cops and underworld gangsters.
He became so reckless in his deceptions and crookedness precisely because he believed himself to be untouchable.
Braces What They ' re For: An anterior crossbite, when one or more teeth on top are behind teeth on the bottom (an underbite); buck teeth (an overbite); crooked teeth; spacing. The 8-Year-Old With a Perfect Smile
But he smiled that goofy crooked smile and raised his eyebrows at me, and I hoisted myself out of the pool, running and giving him a crushing hug.
He walked crookedly, either bumping into me or wandering away at a tangent. SKORPION'S DEATH
It's a bright idea to have crooked cops besiege the police station so that the good cops and their prisoners have to join forces to repel the invaders.
Under his critical gaze I manage to avoid mincing, but end up walking with a pronounced limp and a crooked back, instead - Mother Hubbard crossed with an out-of-condition baby elephant.
Put it to him that his pulling power was not just the box-office kind, and he gives a crooked smile with his eyes turned down. Times, Sunday Times
our words are distortable things--as in a crooked mirror held up to nature
You're sailing a ship lighter than air down a crooked tunnel... ` SEIZE THE RECKLESS WIND
The emperor's jacket was unbuttoned, his lace cravat untied, and his crown of golden leaves sitting crooked atop uncombed dark hair.
The odd crooked stitch or slightly askew angel wing just shows that it is homemade and adds to the charm.
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He vigorously punished crooked cops. Times, Sunday Times
At the far end, that's Bishop Anthony with that funny crooked rotan which is the staff used by shepherds to herd their sheep. The Obnoxious 5xmom
The bullock is a strange, modest-looking little animal with a hump on its back and crooked horns on its head. Nellie Bly's Book: Around the World in Seventy-Two Days
The furniture was the wrong shape - it was curved and crooked.
There is, also, a turnspit, with short and crooked legs, closely resembling the existing variety; but this kind of monstrosity is so common with various animals, as with the ancon sheep, and even, according to Rengger, with jaguars in The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I.
Not acting on our every impulse is supposedly what makes us different from animals. crooked politics Rielle Hunter reveals new details
The man had his back to her and was busily arranging mugs on a crooked wooden shelf.
But in herb-bennet and avens each nut has a single long awn, crooked near the middle with a very peculiar S-shaped joint, which effectually catches on to the wool or hair, but drops at the elbow after a short period of withering. Science in Arcady
He believed he was a crooked, corrupt individual simply out for personal gain, and he was mostly right.
That scheme was knocked galley-west and crooked, for even when MacRae's term expired he'd get a long period of duty at the Fort; he'd lost his rank, and as a private his coming and going would be according to barrack-rule instead of the freedom allowed a sergeant in charge of an outpost like Pend Raw Gold A Novel
He moved on down a thin, crooked scar in the cliffs, hearing the aircraft noise louden once more. THE LAST RAVEN
Elizabeth styled him her pygmy; his enemies delighted in vilifying his "wry neck," "crooked back" and "splay foot," and in Bacon's essay "On Deformity," it was said, "the world takes notice that he paints out his little cousin to the life."
Many of the shelves were old and crooked, weighed down over the years by books and trinkets his grandfather had collected.
The wing lost its crooked shape, becoming straight, but not without pain to its owner.
Chesterfield Council leader Ray Russell said there were three key things on offer to visitors - the famous crooked spire at St Mary's Church, thought to have been caused by unseasoned timbers used in its construction buckling over time.
One of the first things a prosecutor does in a plea negotiation with a crooked pol is try to force the pol to resign his or her office.
The bar is creaky and crooked, with blood-red walls. Times, Sunday Times
Why not "crooked communiqu" or "ropey ringbinder" or "tarted-up tipsheet"? Globe and Mail
Hence trumpets crooked in all keys are to be found in scores of the classical period.
Lobo started shuffling uphill, on crooked empty streets past blind-shuttered windows.
Exposure of the unfixed cartilages to the atmosphere even for a couple of hours also made them crooked and unshapely.
Perhaps most tellingly, Roffey admits that, despite all the workshops and zestful attempts at sexual self-improvement, she actually likes her "flawed and crooked self" and in some ways makes a writerly choice to remain "blind" because "I wanted to turn the darkness in me into prose". With the Kisses of His Mouth by Monique Roffey – review
To straighten out the crooked road an English drunkard made.
And if you've had braces, wisdom teeth can make straight teeth crooked.
He who laughs at crooked men should need walk very straight.
He had cold blue eyes with pale blonde hair and a hooked crooked nose that made his feature ugly.
The boy nodded, a crooked grin gracing his high, rosy cheekbones.
Heads up, shoulders back, there wasn't even a hint of a shirt sticking out, a crooked tie or a dirty shoe, as pupils smiled broadly at the President.
I crooked a finger and used it to gently raise her chin up.
It's almost dark and the sky is already awash with stars, when a row of crooked rooftops comes into view. Times, Sunday Times
Problems might include an overbite, underbite, missing teeth, crooked teeth, or misplaced teeth.
He tries to use her death and his ex-wife’s disappearance to make a bid for custody of his kids … this all being a ploy to get leniency from the feds for his crooked lobbying and keep him out of prison. Rant (with spoilers) Steve Martini's "Undue Influence"
Behind her, the security cops sported crooked grins while Mother contemplated Kaitlin with what could only be described as a malevolent smile. The Shattered Blue Line
a pink-coloured benish, lined with satin, a gold-embroidered turban, a rich silk sash, worked with silver thread, and a djombye, or crooked knife, stuck in his sash, the scabbard of which is covered with coins of silver and gold. Travels in Arabia; comprehending an account of those territories in Hedjaz which the Mohammedans regard as sacred
It remains to point out the moral crookedness, inordination, and unreasonableness, that is intrinsic to the act of suicide, apart from its consequences. Moral Philosophy
The crotchety and the crooked have their vulnerabilities and kindnesses, and no-one is wholly good or bad.
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An elderly man in flat cap and going-out clothes was leaning against the fence, stick hanging from a crooked elbow.
A little crooked at times, he takes high-profile business cases for the money, while finding the time to defend poor clients as well.
He had an odd complacency and crooked smile for the creakiness of fate which had returned him here.
But that short eyebrow, sly grin and crooked jaw are now what make me, well, me.
Whenever I think of that goofy crooked smile I feel warm and content.
The drummer of the band, Matthew, was a dirty blonde with a crooked smile that charmed most people he met.
I had to tell him that my crooked lineage, unlike his blue blood, allows me to establish many antecedents, Punjabi being one.
Thorax narrowed before the wings, which are dark fuscous, with a hyaline irregular mark below the stigma, crossing the submarginal cell; the anterior margin of the anterior wings pubescent; the metathorax broad, margined laterally, with a central forked carina, and a crooked one on each side; the posterior legs incrassate. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
Hair of an unruly curling black hung awry upon her crooked shoulders and cascaded to the waist.
In terms of the ornaments of the liturgy, sometimes the altar is set up in a way that is untidy, such as crooked candles that could easily be straightened or unevenly spaced candlesticks that a few more minutes of preparation could rectify; unkempt vestments, altar linens, cassocks and surplices for servers are sometimes also in evidence, as are servers visibly wearing informal clothing beneath their cassock. Ars Celebrandi as it relates to the Usus Antiquior
Eli got progressively better, as good as his crooked legs and scoliotic back and twitchy arms would allow, and by week's end he and I stood side by side against the wall, while the rest of our team compared bruises on the sideline. Land of the Blind
This sort of staff is crooked at one end, and is called lituus; they make use of it in quartering out the regions of the heavens when engaged in divination from the flight of birds; Romulus, who was himself a great diviner, made use of it. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
The tap-tap boy with the crooked gaze stood in the open doorway, grinning as usual.
You have to drive slowly on these crooked country roads.
Horses are naturally more crooked in canter, they will nearly always canter with their quarters in.
He crooked one arm out before him, fingers and thumb opening and closing, the other arm he bent into a ‘hump’ on his back.
Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius. William Blake
He crooked a finger at me, and Liv gave me a good shove on my behind.
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The shade on the lamp was slightly crooked.
He had one redeeming feature, however -- a pair of blue eyes that looked straight at you and made you feel that there was no "crookedness" behind them. Driven Back to Eden
He had the face of a fighter, with a crooked nose and glowering blue eyes and a jaw that jutted whenever the situation demanded.
The new recruits, studying with Crooked House Theatre Company, will perform a series of scenes, monologues and duologues from diverse and interesting plays.
The only bright spot is provided by Cedric the Entertainer, as a crooked preacher.
He who laughs at crooked men should need walk very straight.
Crooked StillCountry-elegant quintette Crooked Still was founded in Boston in the mid-aughts. Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Volume 205
His smile is crooked, but he smiles frequently and without self-consciousness. Times, Sunday Times
The youngest children were always afraid of him, for he looked so odd and menacing with his one eye, crooked back, hooked nose and black cloak.
If the pictures are a wee crooked and sloshy, well, then that would be accurate, now wouldn't it?
The evolutionary story is a crooked one. Times, Sunday Times
Then he looked at Bill Wall, extending his hand with finger and thumb crooked.
She sneered through a crooked grin. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
They can also claim credit for the country graduating to more mature view of the relations between church and state and a clean up of the ‘minority’ of crooked judges and priests.
As history shows, criminals and crooked cops collude where opportunity takes them.
Her lips were reducing to a slender line and she tried constantly to show some form of a crooked smile.
Afterwards I headed on my own to Lombard St (also known as the crookedest st) which was pretty cool, it was a killer walk up hill too, San Fran is soooo hilly!! TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com
Cameron, cast against type, has to subvert his usually dignified air to portray a crooked and downbeat wastrel.
He could see that at least the trailer was back on its cinder blocks, the glass raked into a crooked windrow. THE SHIPPING NEWS
She knows her party is vulnerable to any hint of being kind to crooked capitalists.
Item, in the adjoining pigeon-hole, a goodly collection of pebbles with holes in them, preserved for the same reason, in company with a crooked sixpence; item, neatly arranged in fanciful mosaics, several periwinkles, Blackamoor's teeth (I mean the shell so called), and other specimens of the conchiferous ingenuity of My Novel — Complete
Maude smiled, too, and crooked a finger, beckoning Lydia to come in.
He threw a small tweed bag at her, and it chinked like stones as it landed at Drachna's crooked and yellowed toes.
Although staff at the Crooked Billet are reluctant to expand on frightening details, they do not wholly refute the suggestion that an Irish woman haunts the cellars.
The crooked secrets of state administration, the sinecurism and corruption ever and again discovered in the bureaus in Washington forbid us to believe in any clear conception of what constitutes good government.
i must leave #82, dick cheney is here to lick the blood and the stench from my crooked ugly skinny fingers … we will then have a seance and wish for the death of justice stevens and bill keller. we will join claws in my death-filled basement and stare into the skull of a dead iraqi child, lit only by candles made from the flesh of liberals … sleep well … kisses, ann Think Progress » MSNBC regular advocates murder of newspaper editors.
A short and crooked trunk supports its broad range of slender branches and thick twigs.
Value Line is one of the screwiest, most absurdly managed and possibly among the most inept, crooked public companies ever to footslog the investment landscape. Des Moines Business News
She crooked her little finger as she drank her tea.
They lunged forward, hooking men with the crooked blade on the pike's reverse, then pulling their victims out of the Espiritu Santo's ranks so that another pikeman, using the weapon's broad axe-head, could slash down hard. Sharpe's Devil
For instance, the Friar tells an aggressive story about a crooked Summoner, a sort of process-server, who runs a string of call-girls and operates a follow-up blackmail racket, relying on the threat of denunciation to the church courts. Chaucer's Road Show Revisited
TWO conmen exposed for running a crooked hoopla stall in a seaside resort were back in business yesterday - after changing the name of their game. The Sun
Put it to him that his pulling power was not just the box-office kind, and he gives a crooked smile with his eyes turned down. Times, Sunday Times
The English word grape appears to come from an Indo-European root meaning “curved” or “crooked,” probably referring to the curved blade of the knife used to harvest grape bunches, or to the shape of the bunch stem. On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
Wait till I get rich, I'll fly that crooked nosed plane one day.
For example, if a patient has a crooked nose, bulbous tip, and dorsal hump, the physician has to analyze each element accurately and explain the situation to the patient.
And let's not forget the crooked, dishonest, lying, unchristian hate mongers who pretend to be ministers of god, running massive megachurches or televangelical programs. Criminals Everywhere You Look; Time to Clean the Stables in Washington
He crooked a necklace from that department store.
A crooked city councilman gives Tony the skinny on waterfront developments that are about to transpire in Newark.
He handed the bowl and spoon to Ben and kept the plate for himself, pulling a bent and crooked little spoon of his own from his boot.
Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths: Archive 2009-03-01
A straight foot is not afraid of a crooked shoe.
A serial arsonist is at work in Mount Hope, many more people die, and Mulligan, having no faith in the city's incompetent police and crooked politicians, embarks on a personal crusade to find the killer. Review of "Rogue Island," a mystery by Bruce DeSilva
Jones' political moves would even make a crooked politician blush.
The crotchety and the crooked have their vulnerabilities and kindnesses, and no-one is wholly good or bad.
It could hardly be said that the relations were entirely harmonious between the military-minded rector, who held to the righteousness of helotry and the value of ignorance in the class beneath him, and the young curate burning with zeal and oppressed with the desire to put all the crooked things of life straight. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876
The thick undergrowth spilled over rotting remnants of fences and a crooked signpost at the intersection of the drive.
I like the description of preboom Los Angeles that McWilliams cites: “a town of crooked, ungraded, unpaved streets; low, lean, rickety, adobe houses, with flat asphaltum roofs, and here and there an indolent native, hugging the inside of a blanket.” I Feel Earthquakes More Often Than They Happen
Mrs. Vervain gave a frailish start from the chair, into which she had sunk, "Oh, do let us be off at once, then," she said; and when they stood on the landing-stairs of the hotel: "What gloomy things these gondolas are!" she added, while the gondolier with one foot on the gunwale of the boat received the ladies 'shawls, and then crooked his arm for them to rest a hand on in stepping aboard; "I wonder they don't paint them some cheerful color. A Foregone Conclusion
She might simply never have been there at all, never crooked her fingers in midair when we made love, never called exhortations against my neck, never uttered hoarse cries for the light to be switched on … Finally I couldn't stand it and walked through the drizzle to the pub. The Vatican Rip
His job sometimes included actually working the fiddle, as with crooked roulette tables, to remove suspicion from the obvious source, the sharper himself.
Sphinx of Eaglehawk_, the shortest of all his works, might have been an excerpt from The _Miner's Right_; and the scene of _The Crooked Stick_ is an inland station in New South Wales in the days of bushranging and disastrous droughts. Australian Writers
Like I said, crooked cabbies are a tiny minority.
If this is true, then people are just naturally dishonest and crooked and downright rotten.
All the molding in the hallway is warped and crooked.
“I was hanging the gasolier crookedly, and Will is endeavoring to straighten it.” Clockwork Angel
He once had a slender girlfriend with a mop of hair and a crooked, pale, nearly pretty face.
Luckily, none of the rediscoverers was noted for rushing to crooked lawyers with claims of being plagiarized.
I crooked my finger at her with a victorious grin.
A crooked walkway alongside the waterfall is what Fovozzo calls the "mishmosh" path. Undefined
Since Doral, there had been a steady regression in ball striking back to the kind of crookedness that characterized his 2004 season, during which he was learning Haney’s unique principles. Unplayable
Such was the story of Pontitianus; but Thou, O Lord, while he was speaking, didst turn me round towards myself, taking me from behind my back where I had placed me, unwilling to observe myself; and setting me before my face, that I might see how foul I was, how crooked and defiled, bespotted and ulcerous. The Confessions
The face of the hill on the south side of the entrance possesses some good soil; and at the time of our visit* was covered with a profusion of herbage, and studded with groups of banksia, which the colonists call the honeysuckle; the wood of which is useful in ship-building on account of the crooked growth of its stem. Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1
He who laughs at crooked men should need walk very straight.
After conning a new victim, Jones would gamble away his money at faro, usually in crooked games run by other hustlers.
Maybe it came out a little crooked. Christianity Today
His wide, crooked blaze was unique, giving him a goofy, yet strangely appealing look.
How can you begin to battle crime when so many cops are on the payrolls of criminals, be they drug pushers or crooked businessmen?
We ate in courses, brought in by his houseboy, an old man with crooked, spindly legs attached to big bare feet like boats.
And along the crooked border where the landmasses once came together, the researchers made an extraordinary discovery.
Moving to stand beside her chair, he crooked an arm.
Sceptics in the media have always seen opinion polls as crooked: not as deceitful as horoscopes, but way short of the exacting standards met by the racing tipsters.
Nobody would have knowed him for the same man that called the crookedest gamblers on the Yukon, and bolted newspaper men raw. Pardners
Some would also have crooked noses from lacrosse accidents. Times, Sunday Times
At 3:00 pm: In City Streets, Gary Cooper plays a carny sharpshooter who goes crooked in order to free his love played by Sylvia Sidney from prison. Thomas Gladysz: Dashiell Hammett at Film Noir Festival

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