Word: devious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Anglo-Saxons such involved methods may seem unreal, but Russians have always enjoyed intrigue and devious means more than any other game. In the cities of New York, Chicago, Washington, etc. the G. P. U. is believed to maintain numerous agents, and is believed to believe that they find things out. Perhaps there is nothing to be found out in the U. S., perhaps nothing escapes the free and vigilant press; but if President Hoover wants to find things out in Russian cities he will have to send spies there. In Moscow, where they know that their own press...
...took Ared White three hundred pages to develop the intricacies of the plot so it can not possibly be done here, and anyway it would spoil the fun of the thing. Roughly the story deals with a brave young American who unravels the devious threads of a great Boche plan to sterm Paris. The sex interest is supplied by a Spanish vixen and a handsome, undecipherable German girl. The former has sold herself to the Vaterland. Her chief job is to lure innocent American spys into the tolls of the German intelligence office through her unlimited supply of passion...
Common Clay (Fox). When this play won a Harvard prize some years ago (1915) it was considered sensational for its courtroom scene. In a devious manner, with this scene as the climax, the heroine, a night-club hostess who sought reformation as a servant girl only to be betrayed by her boss's son, wins a husband for herself and gets possession of the fatherless baby by proving that she herself is the illegitimate daughter of the attorney defending the rich boy. Somehow a few moments of real dramatic power have been concocted out of this stuff and such...
...almost a sure thing. But suddenly, fortnight ago, Albrecht sought out "Little Otto" in Belgium, knelt before him, acknowledged him as the legitimate King of Hungary, swore fealty (TIME, June 2). In Budapest it was at first assumed that this astounding act must be the result of some particularly devious deal between the Ottoists and the Albrechtists. Last week amid the prostration of Archduchess Isabella the truth came...
...audience were mixed. There were those who resented the Bishop's political apostasy in the last presidential campaign (he a Democrat campaigned for Hoover, to defeat Smith, the Wet). There were those who despised him for "gambling" through a bucket shop, those who revered him for his skillful, devious, successful fight for Prohibition laws, those who admired him no matter what...