Word: scandalize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vast number of cases springing from the famous Oil Scandal is an excellent example of the great extent of corruption in the government. A trial like this illuminates the kind of corruption existing in the government during the last few years. It is an astounding spectacle to see the Attorney General and the Secretary of the Interior called on the stand for serious crime. Some of the foremost oil-magnates have also been called...
...Play's The Thing. Sandor Turai (Holbrook Blinn), like Playwright Ferenc Molnar himself, is an urbane gentleman, an excellent dramatist. Therefore, he handles a scandal as he would a theatrical situation; and in doing so, affords the audience a play within a play, an agreeable course in dramatic construction, a joyous evening in the theatre...
Senator Frank B. Willis of Ohio, running on an "I'm-a-Coolidge-man" platform, is opposed by Atlee Pomerene, onetime (1911-23) Democratic Senator, oil scandal prosecutor, lawyer...
...world knows of the Hungarian franc forging scandal (TIME, Jan. 18 et seq.), as a result of which it appeared for a time that the whole Hungarian Cabinet would be branded as the accomplices of forgers. My guide informed me that Premier Count Stephen Bethlen has been entirely whitewashed by the courts; but on the morning when I arrived the Count proceeded to make a show of his complete innocence by resigning with his cabinet. The Hungarian Regent, Admiral Horthy, thereupon paraded his confidence in Premier Bethlen by refusing to accept his resignation. My guide winked assurance that the Premier...
...everyone knows Prince Carol's political opposition to the Bratiano clique last year led to his abdication, though his relations beneath the rose with a certain Mme. Magda Lupescu were trumped up at the time to cover the political scandal. Mme. Lupescu, indeed, still resides with Carol at Paris...