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...Cryptogamic-i.e., devious in sexual behavior. As late as 1875 many scientists argued that some fungi were of spontaneous generation. So tiny and evasive were the winter spores of the potato fungus that they were not identified until 1910. Further, reproduction among fungi was usually sexless, with a sexual union occurring perhaps only once in several generations...
...devious trail led to the Manhattan publishing house of Howell, Soskin & Co., whom Zapp "procured" to publish the German White Paper under its imprint. Thence, the charges continued, the trail led to Ralph Beaver Strassburger, rich, 58-year-old publisher of the prosperous Norristown (Pa.) Times Herald, who last summer fought hard to get the Republican nomination for Ham Fish. According to the Federal indictment, Zapp "procured" Strassburger to finance and distribute free more than 60,000 copies of the White Paper, while concealing the fact that he had anything to do with the deal...
...actionless. It opens with a murder, somewhat later shows a creepy sequence among hidden hallways in the Chinese quarter of Singapore. Otherwise the plot is unwound with conversation rather than movement - usually fatal for cinema. Furthermore, it is a rather conventional mystery story, the tale of a sly and devious wife (Bette Davis) of a British rubber planter (Herbert Marshall) who murders her lover when he appears to be losing interest. There is a trial, an acquittal, a day of reckoning. Moving, as it does, at a laggardly pace, it should, according to all the rules of movies, be just...
...citizens are a bunch of crooks. He does not always use epithet. In a really crushing mood he just calls them politicians and businessmen. In The Politicos (1938) he exposed the politicians; the capitalists caught it in The Robber Barons (1934). This being election year, Historian Josephson explores the devious ways by which the electorate is hoodwinked while Presidents are made in smoke-filled rooms...
French politics were almost as devious and puzzling in 1640 as in 1940. But if the term Labor is substituted for Huguenots, the term Big Business for the big Catholic nobles, U. S. readers will have little trouble understanding the age immediately following the death of Henri IV. Then, as in France before the Nazi invasion, the problem was to save a nation torn between two powerful internal forces whose factional interests meant more to them than France. The man who forced unity upon these conflicting groups and saved France was Armand Jean du Plessis Cardinal Richelieu. His career...