Word: deviousness
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Results of the Reichstag election fortnight ago, in which the Hitlerites more than doubled their representation but still failed to gain control of the Government, were all that Defense Minister Kurt von Schleicher could have hoped for. His own devious plans to rebuild the German army and possibly restore the monarchy are maturing; there is as yet no serious obstruction in sight. Puffing comfortably on a large pale cigar, he admitted a group of correspondents to his office last week and delivered himself of a few random observations. As everyone knows, smiling General von Schleicher has a high opinion...
...Through devious channels the news leaked that negative Mr. Baldwin had made, as almost his only positive proposal last week, a suggestion to Mr. Bennett that Canada discriminate heavily against U. S. chemicals, of which the U. S. sells nearly six times more to Canada than does the Mother Country...
Before the War, the late devious Novelist Henry James, encountering Authoress Harris, went so far as not to deem it inexpedient to encourage her with her writing. His protegee's subsequent literary career has given him cause to turn proudly in his grave. Long a successful journalist (London Daily News, Daily Telegraph, Manchester Guardian), Authoress Harris won a $5,000 prize with her first novel, The Seventh Gate. Her second novel may popularize a writer who is apparently Katherine Mansfield's nearest living literary relative. Her book, written in an extraordinarily vivid style, too pointed for extended novel-writing...
...Inconceivable!" Belief that the published text of the "gentlemen's agreement" is a red herring to distract attention from some understanding still more devious was voiced cautiously in London by former Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill and bluntly in Washington by Senator Kenneth McKellar (Dem.) who said...
Only matches in the Epee and Sabre were held because it is impossible to follow the devious passes of the slender foils in the sunlight. The results of the matches are as follows: Epee: first, J. J. Mackin '33; second, T. I. Moran '32; third, W. M. Altenburg 2G.B. Sabre: first, H. P. Walker, Jr. '33; second, J. S. Hurd '34; third, R. B. Lawson...