Word: devious
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...morning, most Roman citizens are still abed. Few were the early risers who saw, one morning last week, four automobiles speeding by a devious route-past the Temple of Vesta, the Palatine, the Circus Maximus and the Coliseum-to the Basilica of St. John Lateran, which is the cathedral of the Diocese, its high altar reserved to the Bishop of Rome, who is the Pope. A small party of ecclesiastics got out of the motors, entered the church...
...usual, David Lloyd George covered the trail of his devious policy with an oration about nothing in particular but of lofty moral tone. At the mere mention of Disarmament, the little Welsh lawyer leaped up to cry: "President Herbert Hoover is the only world statesman of today who sees that problem with clear eyes!" (no mean dig at James Ramsay MacDonald). "Mr. Hoover has pointed out that men under arms including actual reservists, in the world are almost 30,000,000, or 10,000,000 more numerous than before the War. Every time I, or anyone else...
Called "The essence of Vienna" by everyone but the Viennese, Author Schnitzler gained a reputation for gay cynicism before the War. Since that time his work suggests an aging literary "master," sitting in an old fashioned study with blinded windows, busy with devious, psychological speculations and memories. He is a doctor, and a literary nerve specialist...
...salesman in the Atlanta office. Previous Woodruff occupations had included being an apprentice and machinist in a foundry, a shipping clerk and city salesman in a fire extinguisher company, a purchasing agent for a coal and ice concern. Once with White, Salesman Woodruff's route became less devious, more rapid. After being made assistant to President White, he became general manager and vice president, relinquishing the managership when in 1923 he became president of Coca-Cola...
Detour, construction ahead! or--pass at your own risk, soft shoulders; it rests with the Gods just when the tortuous stream of steaming tar that winds its devious way about the yard may come of age and sink back into that desirable state of intractable resistance. The new "Route 208" or the recommended Socony medium of travel between Widener and wherever you intend to go, represents a new era in the development of the historic old yard; a graceful bow to the commercialism of the present day in the form of laundry, pressing and cleaning, delivery wagons of all sizes...