Word: devious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Word for It. While the original title might possibly have lead cinemaddicts to suppose that the Greeks had a word for Clara Bow, even more probably it would have caused them to make wrong conjectures in classical obscenity. The plural pronoun can therefore be construed as an especially devious example of the skill with which the cinema defends its patrons from their own prurience. In his other improvements on the Akins play, Producer Goldwyn was guided less by a sense of decency than a sense of decoration. Ina Claire, Joan Blondell and Madge Evans are even more alluring than...
Peter the Great came to the throne of Russia quite literally through the grace of God, who was, it is true, substantially aided by the inability of the nation to fathom the devious method of Russian statecraft. Before him there had been a period which the Russians themselves have called, "The time of troubles." Anyone who has read the more gay Russian novels will realize how parlous bad must have been these times. After Peter, while the world was waiting for Catherine II, there ruled three weak women, two of them foreigners. They in turn were followed by a child...
...years he has held diplomatic posts almost everywhere, but got his real leg up to greatness as Chief of the Telegraph Section of the Foreign Office, a key post because the holder has access to all Foreign Office codes & secrets, and secrets play a major role in the devious statecraft of Japan...
...little-known priest without rank or official authority but a trusted confidant of both Pope Pius XI and Il Duce. Six years ago, some of them remembered, he had been attacked in his study, stabbed in the back. Two years later another priest who looked like him was assassinated. Devious and romantic. Father Tacchi-Venturi has busied himself with the highest diplomacy for the past two months. Last week his aims seemed to be nearly accomplished. A new accord was about to be reached between Italy and the Papal State to close the breach which occurred last May (TIME, June...
...Soviet Delegation in a somewhat devious statement accepted part of the Polish plan, and all delegations except the U. S. favored a quota system of some sort. Uncle Sam alone said "No," thus courting extreme unpopularity...