Word: deviousness
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...guidance of members of the board, will have an opportunity to express their ideas on all subjects of University or outside interest. Through the aid of constant criticism, their style and the clarity of their writing will improve rapidly. Like news candidates, they will become familiar with the devious workings of the University and the various educational and financial problems which confront...
...force, who saw the inside of a London jail before retiring to the ruminative dullness of a provincial pastorage. The dramatist who celebrated a ruinous love in Egypt could see only fraud and treachery in the heroes of the Iliad. And the Virgin Queen herself, in the midst of devious intriguing with a half-hostile, half amorous Europe, while cursing her courtiers and badgering her maids-in-waiting, could turn her hand to lyrics of evanescent charm...
...Vagabond enjoyed the Brown game, not, lot him hasten to add, because he enjoys a good football game, nor because it gave him an opportunity to speculate on the devious interference of Providence in the lives of men, but because it allowed him to see once again an old friend who had remained long tucked away in Rhode Island. Indeed he and the Vagabond had shared the tower of Memorial Hall together for many years until he had been called away to edit the now famous series of Brown Studies...
...money he sees no reason why he should not receive something for the hard work which brings so much money into the college till. At this point comes the bootlegging alumnus, filled with ardor for the success of Alma Mater, ready to subsidize the young athlete by dark and devious methods...
Handling Hitler. In von Schleicher's devious plans for rebuilding a German army before attempting a monarchist coup, Adolf Hitler and his 400,000 drilled brownshirts loomed large. As General von Schleicher announced fortnight ago, "Such a movement must be made...