Word: tortuously
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...Lucky Sam McCarver" is no minutely tortuous study. On the contrary, it moves tersely, racily. It is as essentially dramatic as it is biographical. Sam McCarver, who rose from the gutter and is on the make, is no character for a Ph. D. thesis...
...Krim. As the cavalcade wound through tortuous Riffian bridle paths, Frenchmen pondered the history of their captive. His fluent Spanish rose naturally to the lips of a Riffian born in easy circumstances, the son of a Judge, who until about 1917 served as a clerk in the Spanish Oficina Indigena (Bureau of National Activities) at Melilla and grew incensed at the shameless corruption of Spain's administration of northern Morocco under the protectorate convention...
...Petite Chaumiere, or The Little Thatched Cottage-since its name is international-was the scene of a notable saturnalia last week. La P'tite Chaumiere is indeed always well to the fore among the obscure but fashionable Parisian resorts of sophisticates who seek the dark, steep and tortuous streets ascending Montmartre when the hour is really too advanced for one to be seen elsewhere. As a novelty, La Petite Chaumiere combined the twin appeals of Sadism and Inversion, produced a "ballet" re-enacting the celebrated events of the recent Mesmin Case at Bombon. (TIME...
Benito Retorts. While the Italian Senate seethed about him in expectant approval of whatever he might be going to say, Mussolini mounted the Tribune: "The long and tortuous speech of Stresemann makes it necessary for me to make an immediate reply, which shall be clean and precise, like the speech I made in the Chamber last Saturday...
...urbane and well slicked Manhattan mob twittered about the famed Anderson Galleries last week and endeavored to understand the mystic symbolism hidden in the 21 large mural paintings and eight pieces of sculpture there on show. Strange forms of a significance remindful of the tortuous ideas in Novelist James Branch Cabell's Jurgen revealed themselves. Famed Etcher Joseph Pennell was loud in his praise of their originality. Much interest centred about a bust of the famed Spanish Singer Raquel Meller...