Word: devious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...French) and New York Rio and Buenos Aires (U. S.) continued crackling up from South America last week (TIME, Feb. 17), ominous thunderclouds of air trouble rumbled on the transatlantic horizon. Diplomatic protests from the U. S. and Germany were being launched at the actions of France, who, by devious and somewhat obscure methods, was making a determined effort to get control of South American air lanes...
...Harvard School of Business Administration, Professor Philip Cabot, 57, teaches incipient timocrats the devious financial ways of public utilities companies. His brother, Dr. Richard Clarke Cabot, four years older, is a professor at the Harvard Medical School. Philip's twin, Dr. Hugh, taught at the Harvard Medical School from 1910 to 1918. In 1919 he became Professor of Surgery at the University of Michigan, was made the school's Dean two years later...
...sons who cannot maintain his watery equilibrium, comes as a pleasant indication of the University's continued experimentation in the field of curricular requirements. However, another hurdle more or less in the college race means little to the weary undergraduate after a few years practice dodging the devious man-traps lurking in and about the A.B. degree...
...knavish Duke, and who subsequently causes the Duke's downfall by way of atonement, seems like mechanical puppetry. It is an adaptation by Ashley Dukes of episodes from Lion Feuchtwanger's potent novel Power (Jud Suss) which is extolled by its readers as the rich, devious history of a master of aggrandizement, a luxurious pageant of 18th Century Swabia, teeming with personalities. Actor Maurice Moscovitch, once famed in Manhattan's Yiddish theatres and more recently in London, has a few moments over the bier of his daughter when his voice is moving with tragic cadences...