Word: deviously
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...actionless. It opens with a murder, somewhat later shows a creepy sequence among hidden hallways in the Chinese quarter of Singapore. Otherwise the plot is unwound with conversation rather than movement - usually fatal for cinema. Furthermore, it is a rather conventional mystery story, the tale of a sly and devious wife (Bette Davis) of a British rubber planter (Herbert Marshall) who murders her lover when he appears to be losing interest. There is a trial, an acquittal, a day of reckoning. Moving, as it does, at a laggardly pace, it should, according to all the rules of movies, be just...
...citizens are a bunch of crooks. He does not always use epithet. In a really crushing mood he just calls them politicians and businessmen. In The Politicos (1938) he exposed the politicians; the capitalists caught it in The Robber Barons (1934). This being election year, Historian Josephson explores the devious ways by which the electorate is hoodwinked while Presidents are made in smoke-filled rooms...
French politics were almost as devious and puzzling in 1640 as in 1940. But if the term Labor is substituted for Huguenots, the term Big Business for the big Catholic nobles, U. S. readers will have little trouble understanding the age immediately following the death of Henri IV. Then, as in France before the Nazi invasion, the problem was to save a nation torn between two powerful internal forces whose factional interests meant more to them than France. The man who forced unity upon these conflicting groups and saved France was Armand Jean du Plessis Cardinal Richelieu. His career...
Events soon outpaced the 90 Navy bombers, the 173 Army attack planes which were assembled for dispatch to Canada and thence to Europe. Mr. Roosevelt had had to go through the devious farce of "trading in" the planes. 600,000 World War I rifles, 68.000 old machine guns, 875 French and British 755, other munitions to private manufacturers, who in turn sold them to the Allies...
...mean much of anything. He was for rearming the U. S., against letting the U. S. Government arm the desperate Allies ("I would have no objection, but we should be careful not to ... involve this country in war"). What troubled him almost as much was the devious means which Franklin Roosevelt had to adopt: to trade in Army-Navy planes and guns to manufacturers, who passed them on to the English and French...