Word: scandalize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...conceded, visited young Lady Mordaunt frequently prior to the birth of the child. . . . Immediately following the baby's birth she made a confession to her husband, implicating the Prince of Wales, Lord Cole, Sir Frederick Johnston and others. . . . Notwithstanding a jury verdict completely exonerating Edward . . . the scandal touched Alexandra a little more than any other...
...make the boxoffice receipts pile up and so we never object to them and sometimes are glad to see them, not that we do see them as a rule. If a show gets the wrong kind of publicity oftentimes nothing but a few censors hastily called in, and nice scandal, cooked up for the occasion, can save it from the rocks...
...many states it became a political bogey. The peak of its power, it appears, came in about 1923. Soon, however, it began to disintegrate; scandal and dissension seized upon it internally; rival organizations sprang up?the Independent Klan, the Knights of the Flaming Sword, etc.?and in some places community pressure attacked it from without...
...time of the murder even Premier Mussolini himself was suspected of instigating the assassins, and his party's supremacy was momentarily threatened by the scandal. During the ensuing dilatory proceedings, the Fascist prosecutor has whitewashed all Fascists of any importance...
Curtain Cord. While Germans rejoiced at their Government's declaration, there developed out of the affair, a notable scandal at the famed Film and Stage Supper Club, Berlin. The Marchesa Gabriele di Serra Mantschedda entered with two Italian actors and her sister, Maria Orska, the famed and darkly brilliant Russo-Polish actress, long popular in Berlin. While habitues whispered that the Marchesa's Italian husband had recently deserted her and that she was acting as her sister's business manager, she arose, strolled over to the orchestra and tipped the leader heavily to play an Italian Fascist song. Stepping from...