Word: evil
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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SCOTS - Robert Gore-Browne - Doubleday, Dor an ($4). A spirited attempt to clear the evil name of Mary's third husband. Lord Bothwell's assault marriage after murdering Husband No. 2, his callous treatment of wives and mistresses were only black protestant lies inspired by his genius as a Border fighter, says this hot-collared biographer...
...with French Public Scandal No. 1-I'Affaire Stavisky (TiME, Jan. 15, 1934, et seq.). Diving into complete retirement for six months, M. Chautemps, when he cautiously emerged, found many people thought the Stavisky Scandal had been so overdone that they actually regarded him as a martyr to evil tongues. Suave, tactful and poker-faced, Premier Chautemps at 52 can look back upon a career which, until he entered politics, ran with exceptional smoothness in the groove of barrister. Brilliant, he first was called to the bar at the age of 19. Son of an established Liberal political family...
Every British schoolboy learns that in 1348 the Countess of Salisbury embarrassingly shed a garter on a crowded, royal ballroom floor. Courtiers tittered but gallant Edward III saved the situation by putting the thing on his left leg, proclaiming, "Honi soit qui mal y pense" (Evil be to him who evil thinks). Thus was inaugurated the Most Noble Order of the Garter, most exalted in the British Knighthood. It is one of two Orders which admit women...
...curbed, the Council distributed a questionnaire to all students and soon reported that the schools had enlarged abnormally and corroded upon Harvard's "educational standards." It further showed that two out of three had attended the emporiums mainly because of laziness. The University was partly blamed for the evil through badly-organized courses and the loss co contact between student and instructor owing to the burden of research. The only official action to date has been the forbidding of holders of honorary or stipendiary rewards to aid the bureaus without written consent...
...down whack on the green covered committee table and speak his mind-in virtually identical terms: "These hearings have very plainly brought out that holding companies and New York bankers are not the proper people to run the railroads. ..." Last week he added: "Holding companies are as great an evil in the railroad field as they are in the field of public utilities and eventually Congress will have to get rid of them." With this refrain well-understood by all, last week the following choice testimony went into the Van Sweringen record...