Word: scandal
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...tide of Republican scandal foamed up last week and engulfed Germany's greatest post-War soldier, Hans von Seeckt, "The Man with the Iron Monocle." He it is who has forged the new German military machine as General der Infanterie und Chef der Heeresleitung des Reichswehr. For months he has been the anathema of the Allied Council of Ambassadors which has demanded his resignation times without number. Until last week his rockfounded army prestige made his position unassailable...
...more than a rumor--nor can one, lost in the hinterlands of Cambridge, always be quite sure--that a certain gentleman, hight Tunney, lieutenant of Marines, and sometimes called the crowned champion of the world, is to complete the scandal caused by a writer of popular songs, to the extent of entering the Social Register, be it more--then fell is the fortune of all but fatuity. For though when Greek meets Greek, they eat rice pilaf, when prize fighter marries debutante, the public eats the pudding, not alone of publicity, but of despair...
...Paris, an investigation was begun into an astonishing message received by M. Fonck four stormy days before the disaster, a message signed by Commandant Weiss of the French Air Force saying "Abolutely start the flight, even if you drop in the ocean." But sorrow predominated over scandal...
Issues. The so-called Canadian customs scandal (TIME, July 19) which had been whooped as a great issue early in the campaign petered into insignificance before the polling began. A surprising apathy was likewise shown by the electorate toward Conservative promises of a high protective tariff and Liberal pledges of a low tariff for revenue only. An issue meet for tooth and claw was however discovered in the famed "Byng-King" incident...
...political grave of the Ohio gang, the little flowers of indictment still grow every spring, scenting the air with the perfume of scandal and the breath of alleged corruption (TIME, May 17). Already the unsuspecting blossoms of Messrs. Doheny and Fall, Daugherty and Miller have poked their heads above the ground into the dew of publicity. Wary investigators plucked them, hurried them into stuffy courtrooms...