Atop Grinlow Hill, 1, 441 feet ( 439 m ) above sea level, is Grinlow Tower ( locally also called " Solomon's Temple "), a two-storey granite, crooked, crenelated folly built in 1834 by Solomon Mycock to provide work for the town's unemployed and later restored in 1996 after a lengthy closure to the public.

The cast includes the town's eccentric old man and story narrator Whittlin ' Willy, Srini ( Freddy's " Injun " sidekick-actually East Indian ), Doc ' Dizzy ' Gillespie the drunken town doctor, the cafe owner Helen Back, otherwise known as Mom and her stereotypical Chinese chef Hopalong Singh ( a reference to Hop Sing, the cook on Bonanza ), the crooked banker Phineas ( P. H.

The reporter realizes this bewildered, harmless little man was railroaded — just to help the crooked mayor and sheriff pick up enough black votes to win re-election.

The crooked mayor ( Clarence Kolb ) and sheriff need the publicity from the execution to keep their jobs in an upcoming election, so when a messenger ( Billy Gilbert ) brings them a reprieve from the governor, they try to bribe the man to go away and return later, when it will be too late.

He had the treasurer von Wiltberg and mayor Georg Langerhans arrested, supposedly for suspicions of crooked bookkeeping, and confiscated 4002 marks and 37 pfennigs-with a receipt, of course ( he signed it with his former jail director's name ).

In 2003, CRH was accused of making corrupt payments to Ireland ’ s former Taoiseach ( Prime Minister ) Charles J. Haughey as details emerged of how Mr. Haughey received crooked payments from various companies and businessmen in return for political favours.

Many opposition members of parliament voiced concerns that at the time of sale, Charles J. Haughey was Taoiseach and his crooked financier Des Traynor was Chairman of CRH.

The series was created and produced by Stephen J. Cannell, who also had a recurring role as main villain, crooked police officer Donald ' Dutch ' Dixon.

Desperate for a job, he reluctantly allows " Prince " Thomas, the crooked owner of a sleazy bar where he has been working part-time, to introduce him to J. Lyman " Bruiser " Stone, a ruthless but successful ambulance chaser, who makes him an associate.

One tiny detail in a happening can clog the memory and stick like meat in a crooked tooth, while the rest of the occurrence will go hazy and uncertain.

A flash illumined the trees as a crooked bolt twigged in several directions.

Albert's personal qualities won for him the cognomen of the Bear, " not from his looks or qualities, for he was a tall handsome man, but from the cognisance on his shield, an able man, had a quick eye as well as a strong hand, and could pick what way was straightest among crooked things, was the shining figure and the great man of the North in his day, got much in the North and kept it, got Brandenburg for one there, a conspicuous country ever since ," says Carlyle, who called Albert " a restless, much-managing, wide-warring man.

According to Festus, Marcius had the surname of Ancus from his crooked arm.

The 1924 town council elections in Cicero became known as one of the most crooked elections in the Chicago area's long history of rigged elections, with voters threatened by thugs at polling stations.

The bandy stick should be crooked and the bend of the blade is split up into 5 different dimensions, where 1 has the smallest bend and 5 has the most.

The tunnel was crooked and not large enough to carry the water, which caused it to back up when opened.

Loaded and crooked dice are designed to favor some results over others for purposes of cheating or amusement.

A loaded, weighted or crooked die is one that has been tampered with to land with a specific side facing upwards more often than it normally would.

The most common is the circumflex ( which it calls to bach, meaning " little roof ", or acen grom " crooked accent ", or hirnod " long sign ") to denote a long vowel, usually to disambiguate it from a similar word with a short vowel.

The waters formed in a narrow, crooked bay which was connected to the sea through what is now the Jezreel Valley.

They defeat their respective opponents in the competition held the following morning, after arranging for some crooked side-betting on Roper's fight.

* French Canadian fiddling including " crooked tunes ," that is, tunes with irregular beat patterns.

* Métis fiddling, of central and western Canada featuring strong French Canadian influence, but with even more " crooked " tunes.

A poor horseshoer can also make mistakes in the shoeing process itself, not only quicking a horse, but also putting shoe on crooked, using the wrong type of shoe for the job at hand, shaping the shoe improperly, or setting it on too far forward or back.

The old part of Kabul is filled with bazaars nestled along its narrow, crooked streets.

As an instance of his tact in this capacity, it is related that when Charles interrupted a complimentary address by quoting from a satirical poem of Alamanni's the words :" l ' aquila grifagna, Che per piu devorar, duoi rostri porta " (" Two crooked bills the ravenous eagle bears, The better to devour "), the latter at once replied that he spoke them as a poet, who was permitted to use fictions, but that he spoke now as an ambassador, who was obliged to tell the truth.

Having taken control of several European countries through his machinations, he tries to provoke a war between the two fictional nations of Galonia and Toran with the help of the crooked Galonian General Lupo planning to set all the nations of the world at war, but is stopped by Superman.

She criticized their physical imperfections, including Ronnie's small stature and Roxanne's crooked teeth.

On another occasion the nursemaid was blamed for dropping the baby onto a stone floor, injuring a shoulder that ever afterwards remained a little crooked.

There are three sharp turns: the Ivanov rapids, at Nevsky Forest Park of the Ust-Slavyanka region ( the so-called crooked knee ) and near the Smolny Institute, below the mouth of the river Ohta.

According to Herodotus, the first step of mummification was to " take a crooked piece of iron, and with it draw out the brain through the nostrils, thus getting rid of a portion, while the skull is cleared of the rest by rinsing with drugs.

Born to Jewish parents as Samuel Ginsberg in Podwołoczyska ( Pidvolochysk, then Galicia, Austria-Hungary ), he adopted the name " Krivitsky " ( a name based on the Slavic root for " crooked, twisted ") as a revolutionary nom de guerre when he entered the Bolshevik intelligence around 1917.

Chaz ’ s insatiable greed drives him to collude with Samuel Johnson “ Red ” Hammernut, a crooked farm tycoon who owns large vegetable fields adjacent to the Everglades, which he relentlessly pollutes with fertilizer run-off.

The day before the journey, Pyne passes the time talking to General Poli about items in the newspaper, mainly the search for a crooked financier called Samuel Long who is on the run and is rumoured to be in South America.

The shape of Hart's Location is unusual: about long and wide, with crooked boundaries that echo the paths of the upper Saco River and U. S. Route 302 ( near the centerline of the town ), pinched from both sides between steep mountains and in some areas sheer cliffs above.

* Bayou Blues, by Nancy Berman and Eric S. Trautmann-Nathan Zachary and his " Fortune Hunters " square off against a Cajun sky-thief, a crooked businessman, and a pair of star-crossed lovers in a high-stakes, high-altitude con game.

Cognate words are the Greek ( ankylοs ), meaning " crooked, curved ," and the English word " ankle ".

Meanwhile, Blackie's childhood friend, Roman Catholic Father Tim Mullen ( Spencer Tracy ), keeps trying to reform him, while the other nightclub owners attempt to convince Norton to run for the City and County of San Francisco Board of Supervisors in order to protect their crooked interests.

Junior Senator Smith is taken under the wing of the publicly esteemed, but secretly crooked, Senator Joseph Paine ( Claude Rains ), who was Smith's late father's oldest and best friend.

Meanwhile Rocky gets involved with Frazier ( Humphrey Bogart ), a crooked lawyer, and Keefer ( George Bancroft ), a shady businessman and municipal contractor.

In 2011 ( due to recent news stories revolving around celebrities taking out super injunctions in an attempt to protect themselves from scandal ), Roger goes to his crooked solicitor attempting to silence his ex-wife from releasing a book about their violent marriage which also details Roger's ' questionable ' hobbies.

The name Cromarty variously derives from the Gaelic crom ( crooked ), and from bati ( bay ), or from àrd ( height ), meaning either the " crooked bay ", or the " bend between the heights " ( referring to the high rocks, or Sutors, which guard the entrance to the Firth ), and gave the title to the earldom of Cromarty.

He played a crooked cop in Where the Sidewalk Ends ( 1950 ), also with Gene Tierney.

Meanwhile, Blackie's childhood friend, Roman Catholic Father Tim Mullen ( Spencer Tracy ), keeps trying to reform him, while the other nightclub owners attempt to convince Norton to run for the City and County of San Francisco Board of Supervisors in order to protect their crooked interests.

Dennis is working for a crooked businessman, Ally Fraser ( played by Bill Paterson ), after building up large debts to him.

The two men appeared in nine films together, including Casablanca ( 1942 ) as crooked club owner Signor Ferrari ( for which he received a salary of $ 3, 750 per week for seven weeks ), as well as Background to Danger ( 1943, with George Raft ), Passage to Marseille ( 1944 ), reteaming him with Casablanca stars Humphrey Bogart and Claude Rains, The Mask of Dimitrios ( 1944, receiving top billing ), The Conspirators ( 1944, with Hedy Lamarr and Paul Henreid ), Hollywood Canteen ( 1944 ), Three Strangers ( 1946, receiving top billing ) and The Verdict ( 1946, with top billing ).