Word: deviousness
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...ostracizing, and a nation's presence in the League will be regarded as an eccentricity, pardonable but peculiar. Europe will fall back on her pristine direct negotiations, and the major nations will be disembarrassed of the nagging idealism of the smaller club members, free once more to pursue their devious ways without fear of interruption or inconvenient cross-examination. Il Duce will be rid of a contradiction which has weighed sorely upon him from the first: the contrast of his abhorrence of parliamentarism at home, and his acceptance abroad of the super-parliament of the League. France will be shorn...
...University's objections to the plan are thus shown to be opposed by a strong weight of evidence on the other side. While a dignified and in every way cultivated House atmosphere is by all means to be developed, the flimsy arguments originating by devious courses from this true promise should not be allowed to stand in the way of the introduction of student waiting. Tradition is a thing long in the building, and can wait for an emergency relief. The temporary installation of the plan would serve not only to test the validity of the objections...
Divine Drudge (by Vicki Baum & John Golden; John Golden, producer). Based on a Baum novel (And Life Goes On) serialized in Cosmopolitan magazine this play has none of the swift movement, the arresting reality which made Grand Hotel a smash hit and a pattern for imitators. It unfolds a devious tale about a smalltown German doctor (Walter Abel) and his wife (Mady Christians). For seven years she has assisted him in perfecting what he believes to be a momentous medical discovery. Suddenly she runs away from her drudgery with a banker who has had a motor wreck outside their home...
...Farley's little play is becoming too much for him. The stands everywhere convicted; either as the devious promoter of an assistant Tammany ticket to break the anti-Tammany vote, or as the clumsy agent of the President's disgust with Tammany and his determination to set up a less heinous Democracy in New York. Both of these accusations cannot be true; indeed it is difficult to decide which of them is, but in any case the Secretary has bogged himself in an unpretty fashion, and must lose much of the political prestige which alone made him valuable...
...unorthodox will learn that a laboratory without labor is of all the creations of man the most weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable. The subject matter purports to deal with man and his habitat, but it soon develops into nothing more than a series of bald platitudes, reached by devious roads of deduction, a compendium of the laborious undeniable. The vocabulary is meretricious; the reading matter is not to be borne. All this is, of course, that outgrowth of the fact that economic geography is a science in the same sense that government is a science...