Word: scandalized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Some 40 additional persons, many of high rank, were jailed or "unobtrusively guarded in their homes, to avoid scandal." One suspect, Deputy Franz Ulain, safe at Milan, foamed: "These counterfeiters are noble and venerable patriots. . . . I demand that Premier Count Bethlen be swept out of office for daring to arrest Hungarian heroes. . . . I demand that public admission be made of the fact that Hungary is still actually at war with France, and that the counterfeiting was a legitimate and laudable act of war. . . . The profits from the sale of the counterfeit money were being used solely to equip a Fascist...
Crown Prince Carol vented his dissatisfaction toward his parents by agitating against their favorite, Premier Bratiano. He also mixed himself up in a scandal involving the purchase of some allegedly defective airplanes by the Roumanian Government. Every now and then he threatened suicide, although behaving admirably toward Princess Helen, who is said to be gradually going blind. A few weeks ago he failed to return to Bucharest after attending the funeral of the Queen Mother of England. This was not even mentioned in despatches because his frequent "disappearances" with Zyzis have become commonplace...
Critics Assailed. "If you can imagine a world devoid of newspapers, imagine how much misrepresentation, sensation and scandal there would be in it. The newspaper acts as a limit upon private scandalmongers simply by telling the truth about events likely to provoke misresentation"-J. W. Cunliffe, Director of the Pulitzer School of Journalism...
...really havn't got an awful lot to say in favor of the lyrics or the staging or the book of "The Fool for Scandal", but we are heartily in accord with the spirit in which in is given. In any musical comedy, whether amateur or professional, it is important that the actors should realize at the outset that their efforts are not going to revolutionize the drama, but may very likely serve as excellent entertainment for several odd hundred people. To aftain that end all the necessary seriousness of rehearsals and first performances must be dropped when the show...
...well pleased with the work of his pupils. "In many ways I think this is the best show Pi Eta has ever put on", he said. "In other years we've done some pretty good work but I think everyone who gets a chance to see the "Fool for Scandal" will rate it higher than any of the others; higher even than "Peter Called Prince'. The boys have caught on to some pretty tricky dance steps this year; in costume no one could tell them from the choruses of some of the shows in town. As for the principals, will...