Word: misbehavior
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...crimes and misdemeanors." These offenses, he claimed, had not been proved against Judge Ritter. Democratic Senator George of Georgia pointed to another sentence in the Constitution: "The judges, both of the Supreme and inferior courts, shall hold their offices during good behavior. . . ." If Senators believed Judge Ritter guilty of misbehavior, regardless of high crimes and misdemeanors, it was, declared Georgia's George, their duty to convict...
Last week Miss Hellman's adaptation of her own play made the perturbation of the Hays organization look as silly as it made Producer Goldwyn look shrewd. In the screen version the rumor charges one of the teachers with normal rather than abnormal misbehavior. This trivial change strengthens rather than weakens the story, makes it entirely fit for the consumption of all cinemaddicts with the most rudimentary knowledge of the facts of life. Brilliantly directed by William Wyler and acted by an admirable cast, These Three remains on the screen what The Children's Hour...
...conclusion of a summer's romantic misbehavior on the Bay of Naples, Belinda Warren (Miss Laye) has returned to the dank residence of her frosty aunt. The inescapable laws of biology soon com plicate Belinda's problem. She is to have a baby. Unhappily, the baby's illegitimate father is already married to a childless invalid. The baby's illegitimate grandfather rationally proposes that the little newcomer be smuggled into his son's home, passed off as his son's legal heir...
Major incident of the last World Series was the altercation between Umpire George Moriarty and members of the Chicago Cubs, who said that he had abused, humiliated and demoralized them (TIME, Oct. 14). Last week, in Chicago, baseball's Tsar Kenesaw Mountain Landis announced the penalties for such misbehavior: $200 fines against Umpire Moriarty and Baseballers Elwood English, Bill Herman, and Bill Jurges for "vile, unprintable language"; a $200 fine against Cubs' Manager Charles Grimm, for remaining on the field after Umpire Moriarty had ordered...
...producing mild surprises. Year ago first award went to Man of Aran (TIME, Sept. 24) but the most popular picture at the show was Extase, of which the climax was a close-up of the heroine's face while the rest of her anatomy was occupied in carnal misbehavior (TIME, Aug. 27, 1934, et seq.). Last week the Fascist Party's special prize for "the most artistic" foreign film of the year went to Columbia Pictures' No Greater Glory (TIME, April 23, 1934). Adapted from Ferenc Molnar's novel (The Paul Street Boys) about the warfare...