Word: deviously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...usual, had to get the lowdown by devious methods. Across Twelfth Avenue from Pier 90, in a waterfront joint called the Anchor, Queen Elizabeth's crew gradually spilled the beans. Whoever would talk got free drinks. Some of the men were reticent and asked not to be quoted. Senior Printer Pearce Jones not only consented to be quoted; he insisted. "I am protected," he said, "by the Typographical Society of Great Britain and Ireland." Greaser Tom Barber and Fireman Jim O'Brien and Engineer Peter Johnson were in fine form. Oiler Jack Sykes babbled in Cockney. Gradually...
Famed as the work is, it has seldom been performed. Last week, when the Bach Circle presented it at Town Hall, Manhattanites first heard it in its devious entirety. A capacity audience of Bach enthusiasts sat out the two-hour perform ance, then applauded quickly, quickly swarmed doorwards...