Word: scandale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trips. Last week the prince blew up. At a press reception in Rio de Janeiro in the midst of a Latin American tour, he collared a reporter from the Daily Express. Said the prince: "The Daily Express is a bloody awful newspaper. It is full of lies, scandal and imagination. It is a vicious newspaper." On the Ramparts. To Philip's immediate defense sprang the Conservative Member of Parliament from Solihull, Sir Martin Lindsay. A sheaf of papers in his hand and blood in his eye, Sir Martin accused the Beaverbrook papers of conducting "a sustained vendetta" against Britain...
...Tammany Hall choice and supporter, the other of a reformer fighting the machine. Wagner has a talent for attracting controversies, but he is fortunate in his enemies; they always manage to make him look better with their own gaffes. Though his administration has been pockmarked by scandal, Wagner is an honest and hardworking mayor who, like many other mayors, sees his statewide dominance over his party as a gantry for a higher flight-in his case, to the governorship. Says Wagner: "It's an amazing city. I get a great thrill from being mayor here...
When Dilworth began his gubernatorial maneuvering this year, Bill Green insisted that his polls showed that Dilworth could not win and would not even carry Philadelphia, where Dilworth moved belatedly last year to clean up a scandal in the city government. Dilworth imported Pollster Lou Harris, Jack Kennedy's trend spotter. Harris found Dilworth the strongest possible Democrat in the field, and told the President so. Despite the fact that Green had helped Kennedy win both the Democratic nomination and Pennsylvania's 32 electoral votes in 1960. Green got the word from the White House...
...servant of God." After the evidence is re-examined by the congregation, the servant may be declared by the Pope as a "venerable." The venerable's cause is then challenged by a devil's advocate (real title: promoter of the faith), who will search for scandal in the person's life, question the authenticity of the two miracles (usually medical cures) alleged to be the result of the potential saint's intercession with God on behalf of some person who has invoked his name in prayer. After this test the candidate is declared "beatified...
Evelyn Ernest Percy Tisdall has an improbable hobby for the head of a boarding school for young children: fireworks. He also goes in for fireworks in a literary way with court-scandal biographies, such as Alexandra, Edward VII's Unpredictable Queen, and Marie Fedorovna: Empress of Russia. His latest is about the Queen whose present reputation is about as far removed from gamy gossip as it is possible to get. But in her own lifetime the black-draped Widow of Windsor was openly rumored to be having a Lady Chatterley-like affair with a Scottish gamekeeper, and Scandalmonger Tisdall...