Word: devious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...book (product of the combined efforts of Paul Peters, George Sklar, Frank Gabrielson, and David Lesan) although arranged in the conventional form of independent sketches, has a definite and consistent undertone of social consciousness. Starting off with biting and amusing satire on the devious methods of the New Deal, it grows into a subtle and persuasive indictment of some of the more annoying phases of our social attitude. Toward the end of the performance the attack became vigorous, and seemed to make the assembled gentry a bit unhappy, but Boston first night audiences cannot be expected to wax enthusiastic...
There remain, however, dangerous explosives in the international situation, largely because Hitler has been talking more loudly and faster than the leaders of all the other countries combined. Although Der Feuhrer asserted his wish for European peace, he emphasized, in the devious language of diplomacy, his determined opposition to any interference in the "natural relations" between Austria and Germany--a statement which will stick in the crop of Mussolini. Even more serious are the arrogant demands that the Polish Corridor be demolished, that part of Czeckoslovakia be returned, and that the Reich have an air force equal to the French...
Mistress Eaton, the first Westcott of Harvard back in the seventeenth century, was finally cornered in her devious ways by a constipated student body; in the ensuing investigation, she admitted almost every accusation that was leveled against her decayed menu, but she denied, denied most energetically, that she had ever served ungutted fish or, pleasant thought, sheep's dung. So records Professor Morison in his Harvard History. What, Mr. Westcott, what are your denials? Frank E. Sweetser...
...Eliot House Lunch has felt the heavy hand of discipline. Its back door is closed. No longer may the parched and famished save time by going through O entry. Every one must take the devious and twisting route through...
...League of Nations, despite the rantings of Hearst and Coughlin. Nor is it to be discovered in treaties which will be made public only in autobiographies and memoirs published many years hence. For public opinion--always the weightiest imponderable in democratic nations--will not countenance a return to the devious methods of pre-war Europe. If the recent London Naval conversations, and the talks now in progress between France and England, have any significance, it is the clear manifestation of an attempt to achieve real understanding between the men whose task is to further the desires of their people...