Word: deviousness
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...subservience, at any rate, is assured. The photograph, p. 24, of Matriarch Mary with Queen Elizabeth "well in hand" is the most expressive picture of the week. To see it is to understand at a glance the devious story of Edward's unprecedented behavior. In "most vulgar" American, or in any language, that expression on the Queen Mother's face spells "Meddlesome Interferiority." My only consolation is that TIME'S preview has cleared up much of the "Mystery of the Coronation." If Americans do not boycott the ceremonies, then they deserve the low opinion that Mary, churchy...
...least interested in making the world safe for Trotsky, or in seeing Stalin murdered, or vice versa, was TIME in reporting as clearly and objectively as possible the devious, contradictory, altogether "Russian" propaganda trial of Old Bolsheviks...
...Sitting quietly at his maple desk, the Vagabond's thoughts wander into devious channels, and his pen following his mind as a child imitates its seniors--traces an incongruous line of thought, erratic but mild. Today he loiters before the haberdasheries of Harvard Square, gazing in vain at windows filled with things he wished his friends had given him for Christmas and wishing in vain be could return most of the things they did give him. Friends pass by. Some with tanned faces that bespeak of southern holidaying. A lucky few with ruddy faces who had found snow in which...
...proposed, all have been acclaimed by millions and all have spent time and wasted money with little to show for it. In short the nations of the world have talked, but few have acted in concert or with the aim of peace or concord uppermost in their respective and devious minds...
...deteriorate and there is no reason to expect the University to be exempt from this law. Therefore, the ideal would seem to be a set standard for tutoring, approved by the several faculties and rigidly adhered to by the tutoring bureaus. In this way the danger of unscrupulous or devious methods of obtaining a degree might be minimized and the tutoring schools might assume a more dignified and worthwhile position in the undergraduate life...