Word: deviousness
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...Brown has just written a short novel,* announced as a story about a New England spinster who suddenly becomes interested in murder. She thinks most detectives stupid, she loudly affirms that if she were a murderer she could cover her tracks far more successfully than those who wend their devious ways through the pages of detective stories. Presently she finds herself accused of murder. What a nice idea it is, to be sure...
Across the river, in front of the Palais de Justice, a dense crowd waited in the cold for the scraps of news flung to them ever and anon by devious persons. Inside, Maitre Donal Guigue, Public Prosecutor, demanded the death sentence. Nobody had the right to kill, he said. But his heart was not behind his words; he was reciting a mere formality. To Maitre Henri Robert, defending lawyer, he confided: "I envy you your job. Would I were standing in your place. This case is one in which the Public Prosecutor's role is not that of a sympathetic...
...Story Without a Name. Reeking of radio, rum and romance, this production defied baptism. Tony Moreno offers a flowing tie and horn-rimmed spectacles as evidence that he is the inventor of a death ray projector. Immediately he is put upon by the devious treachery of foreign agents...
...accused of attacking our institutions 'but here is Wall Street,* the conservative banking interests, doing the same thing with impunity!" As a matter of fact, the radicals can have less honest objection to such a mode of procedure than if the Harriman National Bank spent its money in devious ways to buy influence at Washington or to subsidize the press to print its views vicariously. It is logical that, with the progress of Democracy, the "moneyed interests," like all other interests, should appeal to the voters for support. It is noteworthy, a true sign of Democracy, that even a beginning...
...perfect conductor of light. Light from a match or pocket flash at one end of a fused quartz rod 25 feet long passed through the tube without appreciable loss of illumination. Further, the light travels intact through bent and twisted tubes, around corners, no matter how long or devious the way, just as a hose carries water...