Word: tortuously
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Because the House subway dodges sewers, water pipes and roots of great elms on the Capitol grounds, it posed engineers a tortuous problem. Solution: an endless belt of aluminum plates strung together on the escalator principle, with enough play to take the curves, and powered by seven dwarf motors. Initial cost of $175,000 seemed staggering beside the $25,000 spent on the Senate trolley, but there were compensations. Annual appropriation for operating the Senate subway, which requires two motormen, is $2,000, while running cost for the moving sidewalk would be only for the flick of a switch, morning...
...body of Italy's poet, prince, lover, soldier and No. 1 eccentric, 74-year-old Gabriele D'Annunzio, Prince of Monte Nevoso, who had died two days before. Beside the carriage walked Premier Mussolini and the poet's estranged wife, the Duchesse of Gallese. Up the tortuous, winding road to Gardone di Sopra wound the procession, through lanes of mourners standing with upraised arms. In the little Church of San Nicolao the village priest imparted conditional absolution, although virtually all the poet's 80 volumes are on the Catholic Index as "obscene and blasphemous...
...personal impression is that the first two hundred pages of Sorokin's first volume contain the decisive argument, but D. W. Prall thinks so little of that volume that we might well summarize his tortuous arguments in the good old American phrase...
...dithyrambs, our gallant Thespis thumbs his nose," few days later signed to write for Cinemogul Samuel Goldwyn at $260,000 annually, Hollywood's highest writing stipend. Soon thereafter he went on leave to try compacting two more ideas into three acts each. In the tortured and tortuous mental life of his hero Sterns in To Quito and Back, friends of Playwright Hecht thought they saw more than a trace of autobiography...
Winding her tortuous way through an hour and three quarters of mother love, Barbara Stanwyck almost renders a successful performance in "Stella Dallas", currently featured at the University...