Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Star: "This story of scandal and abominable lying is a scandal and a disgrace which Parliament cannot ignore. It is not the reputation of Gen. Charteris, but of the British nation which is at stake...
...SCANDAL...
...production of "The School for Scandal" is at present engaging Mr. Dean's efforts. He proposes to put on Sheridan's old play with a simplified stage plan wherein a good deal of the usual scenery is left out, thus putting upon the actors the burden of creating the atmosphere...
Public men must be careful. If they become involved in any little fracas, or indulge in a little bit of drunken revelry, they are at once in a scandal which respectable papers, and yellow papers, and scurvy little gum-chewers' sheetlets retail to the public...
Some 15 months ago (TIME, June 23, 1924) occurred the famed Matteotti murder, a scandal that rocked Fascism to its foundations. As he walked one evening beside Tiber, Giacomo Matteotti, multi-millionaire Socialist Deputy, was set upon by fanatical blackshirts who jumped out of a closed automobile and seized him from behind. Bundling him into their machine, they kidnapped and brutally murdered him. For days a rigid Fascist censorship released only news that he had "disappeared." Then the details of the crime leaked out. Charges were preferred against prominent Fascists. II Benito himself did not escape the implication of ultimate...