Word: chaplinitis
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...Lita's mother often suggested to me that I marry Lita."--Charles Spencer Chaplin...
That Mrs. Chaplin and her mother, Mrs. Grey, have been demanding $1,000,000, with the threat: "We'll ruin you if you don't settle...
Significance. The Chaplin case was momentous in British newspaperdom as the first divorce action to test thoroughly the new suppressive law. Was it well that Britons could not read the details of the case, or, in the words of Viscount Burnham, proprietor of the Daily Telegraph, is the law "an instrument of propaganda designed to persuade the world that Britons are moral by obscuring their immoralities...
Meanwhile copies of the World and other publications which printed the Chaplin story in extenso were being smuggled into England by shrewd transatlantic stewards, who hawked them to those able and willing...
...public scandal. They received the same treatment as the recent baseball crisis. They received the same attention from the street corner loafer, the same insane comments from people who never went to Harvard or Princeton, or any other college, whose interest in them, as it is in Charlie Chaplin, or Ban Johnson or Ty Cobb, is aroused by the unhealthy appetite for scandal and more scandal...