Word: scandalized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...household word -a thoroughly wicked woman, grist to the Arlenesque mill. This crafty villainess bewitches the carthorse into cad, and breaks Lily Christine's heart. Not the least of the heroine's anguish is over a respectable middle-class boyfriend whom she has unwittingly involved in the scandal. And just as the plot is thickening pleasantly, Lily Christine's creator pitches her under the wheels of a motor-lorry...
...greenbacks in a little black bag. When Drew thereupon double-crossed his juniors in a dicker with the commodore, Fisk and Gould cut loose upon an independent career of buying railroads, Tammany judges, and gold. On the famous Black Friday, 49 years ago, they cornered gold in a grand scandal of disaster. Fisk "went in" to save his partner, but Gould took cunning advantage of the generous gesture, ruined debonair Fisk, and saved himself...
...gold hair; Louis, her royal spouse, a wistful dullard who would have made an honest artisan. The worldly cardinal who passionately loved Antoinette nevertheless caused her miserable downfall because he was the dupe of a scheming court slut. This clever minx stole the necklace, implicated the queen in the scandal, but herself rode screaming and scratching to the Bastille...
Recently carping, scandal-mongering Afghans have been conducting a whispering campaign against their Europeanized King Amanullah...
...Chicago, at which 10,000 Republicans consumed six tons of beef and pork, 200 barrels of potatoes, five truckloads of bread. But it was a prime moment for the Brown Derby to be in the heart of the Midlands. Just before he got there, the Salt Creek oil scandal had broken, involving National G. O. P. Chairman Work and Attorney General Sargent with Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair and politics (see p. 7). People were waiting to hear what the chief Democrat would say about that. They heard that he was telephoning long distance to Senator Walsh of Montana, the Democratic...