Word: deviousness
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...there is not much to be said. It is very British in tone, and deals with the complications that follow when a country vicar's daughter reverts to Victorian crinolines in order to win a journey to London, and, ultimately, a husband, together with her twin sister's less devious route to the same goals. The plot is rather more involved than is usual on the contemporary stage. It abounds in "character" parts which require considerable adroitness from the actors, and more experience, perhaps, than undergraduates can supply. There was little wit but much humor in the dialogue, none...
...Study of synthetic violet perfumes led by devious study to knowledge of the constitution of Vitamin A, whose molecule constitutes one-half the molecule of carotene, the substance that colors carrots, egg yolks. Synthetic violet differs from 'carotene only in the shape of its molecule...
...Word for It. While the original title might possibly have lead cinemaddicts to suppose that the Greeks had a word for Clara Bow, even more probably it would have caused them to make wrong conjectures in classical obscenity. The plural pronoun can therefore be construed as an especially devious example of the skill with which the cinema defends its patrons from their own prurience. In his other improvements on the Akins play, Producer Goldwyn was guided less by a sense of decency than a sense of decoration. Ina Claire, Joan Blondell and Madge Evans are even more alluring than...
Peter the Great came to the throne of Russia quite literally through the grace of God, who was, it is true, substantially aided by the inability of the nation to fathom the devious method of Russian statecraft. Before him there had been a period which the Russians themselves have called, "The time of troubles." Anyone who has read the more gay Russian novels will realize how parlous bad must have been these times. After Peter, while the world was waiting for Catherine II, there ruled three weak women, two of them foreigners. They in turn were followed by a child...
...years he has held diplomatic posts almost everywhere, but got his real leg up to greatness as Chief of the Telegraph Section of the Foreign Office, a key post because the holder has access to all Foreign Office codes & secrets, and secrets play a major role in the devious statecraft of Japan...