Word: deviousness
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General Castellano set off for Rome by a devious route. But the Badoglio Government, worried over his failure to report promptly, had sent out another mission to Lisbon. Again an Italian general was chosen, but now, as evidence of good faith, a captured British officer accompanied him. The officer was red-faced, one-armed, one-eyed Major General Adrian Carton de Wiart, one of the Empire's famed warriors, who had been captured by the Italians in 1941. London's Express called General de Wiart a "real-life, elusive Pimpernel." Not obliged to return to Italy, he turned...
Future policy dictates first, that readers will be given the opportunity to test their mettle in such devious ways as minute mysteries, jiffy quizzes, thrilling contests with cash awards and other such fiendish devices as the nimble minds of your correspondents can concoct. Secondly, we plan a program of cultural advancement...
Within an hour after Fighting Frenchman Georges Catroux arrived in Algiers last week (see col. 1), the Giraud Government announced the dismissal of Jacques Lemaigre-Dubreuil, a French industrialist (peanut oil) who had taken a devious but potent hand in North African affairs...
These earnings, announced last week by the Interstate Commerce Commission, brought out charges so bitter that one might have supposed that the railroads not only had made big money but had made it through the devious exploits of a Gould, Fisk, or Daniel Drew...
...plot hangs on Hope's misadventures as a correspondent, beginning with his recall from Moscow because he was scooped on the Nazi invasion of Russia and going on to his efforts to outsmart an Axis spy ring in Washington. The devious chase leads him to boudoirs, Niagara Falls, a burlesque queen's bed, a beauty salon and finally to the spies' council of war in the salon showroom, where Hope tries to conceal himself by posing as a clothes dummy on a bicycle. His mugging in this perilous situation, marked by vain efforts to regain a dropped...