Word: deviousness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
There are several methods of looking at the new mayor, the best of which is through a pair of violently rose colored glasses. He is not guileless nor is he innocent of the devious ways of the Loop. One might say of him as has been said of Jack London--he was a man, thus leaving gradations of value quite unnoticed. At any rate he has managed to gather enough votes to come through the winner. Congratulations are in order for him, for the Illinois underworld--in fact for everybody but the people of Chicago...
...Chicago for the opera season. For two weeks all roads lead to Huntington Avenue and Mary Garden's adventures are bruited about the streets by yodeling news boys. But short though the festival is for residents of Boston it is even shorter for Harvard students. Due to the devious machinations of booking offices the Chicago Company invariably plays in Boston during the hectic Mid year period when students have either turned scholastic recluses or have field homeward for a brief vacation. When they return sent are unavailable at any price and in a few days the Opera House again becomes...
...game. Swiftly the hungry straggler mounts to world championship, hangers-on, Fierce-Arrows, booze, kotowing, all the tinseled impedimenta. After two years of demoralizing opulence, double-crossed by his manager, disillusioned by the discovery that his idolized Irene is tinged with black blood like his own, he forsakes the devious paths of Harlem, seeks out the sunny slopes of California, wanders away again, a singing hobo...
...This, of course, is all but impossible to detect, and when detected is generally incapable of proof. At times the bribe takes the form of a heavy contribution to party funds, which is distributed in devious ways...
...whole dramatic library has flowed from the devious but prodigiously brilliant pen of Professor Luigi Pirandello. His academic intimates know him as an erudite philosopher philologist. But to the world he is the playwright of Six Characters in Search of an Author. Last week he contrived in actuality at his Roman villa a drama as "Pirandellic" as any of his numerous plays-famed for his knack of creating characters (like his Henry IV) who are not what they seem. Early in the week Signor Pirandello had received a visit from two friends with a mutual grievance: Playwright Massimo Bontempelli...