Word: scandalized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...investigation, principal effort was directed to trying to tie up both parties with the oil scandal by means of their campaign contributions in 1920. Senator Thomas J. Walsh (Democrat) produced witnesses to try to prove that the late Jake Hamon of Oklahoma, oil man, bought President Harding's nomination for oil purposes. Senator Spencer (Republican) tried to prove that Mr. Doheny had contributed $75,000 to the Democratic campaign fund...
...America that a project such as you have started here has been attempted. You are starting right, for you are paying your way as you go. The history of opera companies that are managed under some scheme of subsidy or guarantee is a recital of failures. The Teapot Dome scandal of grand operadom was the Chicago Civic Opera Company in the days when Harold McCormick's millions were back of it. The extravagance was dreadful...
...born in London, one of four brothers, of whom three are writers: Sir Philip Gibbs, famed War correspondent and subsequent novelist, Arthur Hamilton Gibbs, who wrote Gun Fodder, and Cosmo, author of plays and novels, among which are The Belle of Mayfair, The Blindness of Virtue, The Blue Room, Scandal, The Silver Fox, The New Poor...
...Davis has practically disqualified himself for the Democratic leadership by his conservatism", continued Dr. Buell, "and McAdoo will find it difficult to live down the association of his name with the oil scandal. Our only hope will be to find some man unknown at present, who is capable of handling one of the most difficult political situations in the history of the United States...
...this is, of course, known "downstairs," where more scandal is known of the "upstairs" than among the society folk themselves. The servants gain much of their information through a little game they have invented. Torn letters are salvaged from waste baskets, and he who can patch them most cleverly wins the prize. Sprang, the butler, who is a devout Methodist and a bachelor, makes no secret of his disapproval of the goings on "upstairs." In this he has the unqualified support of Craig, the chauffeur. Meanwhile Louis Le Tour, the captain's man, enlivens the scene by making love...