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  • If they'd had one painted as a crook's getaway car, he'd have probably done better, but as it was, his team won, and collapsing into a heap, giggling like a schoolgirl, The Pussy clearly relished being the meat in a Hayden-Brendan sandwich.

    Tallulah Morehead: Big Brother 12: I, Boobiac! 2010

  • If they'd had one painted as a crook's getaway car, he'd have probably done better, but as it was, his team won, and collapsing into a heap, giggling like a schoolgirl, The Pussy clearly relished being the meat in a Hayden-Brendan sandwich.

    Tallulah Morehead: Big Brother 12 : I, Boobiac! Tallulah Morehead 2010

  • Out Of The Past (1947) - Private detective Jeff Bailey (Robert Mitchum) is hired by high-ranking mobster Whit Sterling (a young Kirk Douglas), to find the crook's runaway mistress, Kathie Moffett (Jane Greer).

    John Farr: Film Noir, At Its Noirest 2010

  • If they'd had one painted as a crook's getaway car, he'd have probably done better, but as it was, his team won, and collapsing into a heap, giggling like a schoolgirl, The Pussy clearly relished being the meat in a Hayden-Brendan sandwich.

    Tallulah Morehead: Big Brother 12 : I, Boobiac! 2010

  • On March 15th, Amendolaro won $1,500 playing the last three numbers of the gargantuan crook's prison number -- 61727-054A.

    Andrea Chalupa: Madoff's Prison Number Pays Off for Lottery Player 2009

  • Out Of The Past (1947) - Private detective Jeff Bailey (Mitchum) is hired by high-ranking mobster Whit Sterling (a young Kirk Douglas), to find the crook's runaway mistress, Kathie Moffett (Jane Greer).

    John Farr: The Coolest Male Movie Star, By Farr (You'll Never Guess) 2009

  • As someone below mentioned, you've gotta be pretty hard up to claim "momentum" just by picking up a crook's seat in the Deep South -- even in a democratic district.

    Election Central Sunday Roundup 2009

  • There's also a great scene in which Nick and his cop buddy Guild Nat Pendleton try to question Nunheim while the crook's girlfriend storms around and throws pots and pans at her cheating man.

    The Thin Man Ed Howard 2009

  • | Reply | Permalink married people understand what it means to be married to someone who works for a crook as the crook's right-hand man.

    GOP Senator Coleman And Indicted Stevens: All In The Family 2009

  • Out Of The Past (1947) - Private detective Jeff Bailey (Robert Mitchum) is hired by high-ranking mobster Whit Sterling (Kirk Douglas), to find the crook's runaway mistress, Kathie Moffett (Jane Greer).

    John Farr: To Celebrate Spring, The Best Road Movies By Farr 2009

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