Word: tortuously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first meet for any by the downhill men. In the jumping Harvard will be well represented by Cedric E. Francis '37, who took fifth place in a recent intercollegiate contest at Lake Placid, and by Brooks and Emerson. For the slalom, a form of race in which a tortuous course is steered down an open slope between prescribed markers, the veteran group of Carter, Maclaurin, and Rogers will undertake the point making...
...Seattle last week Superior Court Judge Howard M. Finley soberly heard churchmen expound the quality of a bishop's "godly judgment." Since the Episcopal Church drew up its constitution in 1789, its Canon 42 had been brought into civil court only once before-in New Jersey in 1893. Tortuous and hedged with ambiguities was the question Judge Finley was to decide: had Bishop Simeon Arthur Huston the right to oust Rev. Charles Stanley Mook from Trinity Church without taking counsel with the Standing Committee of his diocese...
Speculation as to the immediate products of this union, if it be consummated, may not be entirely without interest, for the ramifications of diplomacy can be ribaldly tortuous. What, for example, will be its effect on the Far Eastern question? Japan's relations with the United States, Russia, and Great Britain are at present in a state which may decorously be called difficult. With the exception of Russia, these powers as well as France are involved in the coming conference which will revise the Washington naval treaty. Concerning this, Japan has just politely indicated that she does not care...
...mill magazine fiction. Faulkner seldom writes about ordinary human beings. When he does he is careful to hide them in a mist of sinister innuendo. His forte is pathology; his most effective stories depend on madness gradually unveiled. In a novel he has space enough for his tortuous unraveling, but many of these short stories fail to convince simply because the reader has not had sufficient time to become bemused. The four best stories stand out from the rest like so many painted thumbnails: Three daredevil neurotics with a condemned airplane, no licenses, tour country towns putting on a crazily...
...littered with paper, its walls smeared with grime and dirt. When the presses pounded on the floor above, a thin downpour of dust floated over the room. Grimy wires and rusty old hooks used by gymnasts when Tammany Hall had occupied the building were suspended from the ceiling. A tortuous circular staircase led to the room, up & down which ambitious young reporters used to trudge: Arthur Brisbane, Samuel Hopkins Adams, David Graham Phillips, Edwin C. Hill, Will and Wallace Irwin, Walter Pritchard Eaton. It was the old city room of the New York...