Word: deviousness
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...that is not an exaggeratedly lyrical paraphrase of a gypsy chief's address to his people, then this may be a vividly naturalistic novel of gypsy life in the eastern U. S. It follows the devious fortunes of a band of Romanies from the break-up of their winter camp in New Hampshire to their arrival at a Vermont council ground in the autumn. In particular, it follows the wooing of pantherlike young Panna, the chief's daughter, by Milanko, the tumbler, and Yurka, the half-giorgio* fiddler; and reflects the changing of gypsy ways from mooching along...
...GREAT GOD BROWN?Eugene O'Neill unwinding the devious fabric of two men's minds?two enemies who traded the spirit for cash down...
DULCARNON-Henry Milner Rideout - Duffield ($1.50). With devious dithering that confuses yet never quite discourages the attention, a mystery is hitched along from Marseilles to Port Said, to Calcutta, to a native prison in the hills, to a river village, to a maharajah's time-encrusted palace in the jungle. Cryptic scribbling in mouldy volumes of Chaucer lead at last to-certain mislaid belongings of the globe-sacking son of Philip of Macedon. Utterly fantastic and gratuitous mystification, with a U. S. adventurer and a rather attractive French wandering man moving in a maze of blind beggars, green lizards...
...there is a man whom Governor Alfred E. Smith despises, it is Red Mike. And if hatred can be holy, the Governor makes it so in his devout abomination of William Randolph Hearst and all his published and unpublished works. Finally, a devious fate has given to the brilliant man he most detests a complete ascendancy over the stupid organization he most despises...
There is a college ruling against keeping dogs in dormitory rooms, and by a devious process J. Leslie was ruled, because of his size and biting ability, to be equivalent to a dog. Many Freshmen sympathize with the owners in their loss, but the proctors pity only the goodies...