Word: scandalized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...money to send Bee away to her Aunt Grace's in Kansas City and discovered that he wasn't quite such a noble character as he had thought he was. When Bee returned with the consequences ?a red little infant named Cecil? the trouble began. And the scandal and finger-pointing was much increased by the fact that Adrian Plummer, Guy's highly Old Testament father, proclaimed his son's sin from the pulpit and confessed that he, too, had done likewise in his young, irreligious days...
...SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL ? (Scheduled to appear only during the week of June 4-9.) The cast includes John Drew, Robert Mantell, Walter Hampden, Francis Wilson, Ethel Barrymore and others almost as famous. If it is as good as " The Players Annual Classical Revival" last year, it is decidedly worth seeing...
...natural accidents?a sudden " crush " of Laurel's on the widowed first-love?the revival of an ancient and baseless scandal about Stella herself?made the issue plain. Stella saw that Laurel wasn't her kind? that she herself was the handicap on Laurel's becoming "nice." So she gave Laurel up in the only way that could bring a definite breach between them?let Stephen divorce her and married the wreck of an ex-society-riding-master, a worthy whom Laurel couldn't bear. She smashed Laurel's faith in her, and told her she was going to South...
What is more, he addressed a gathering of Rotarians and told them: " I was particularly careful about choosing the newspaper the boys would read . . . The Christian Science Monitor was selected because I believe it to be the cleanest paper in the country. It prints no accounts of crime or scandal; it is reliable; it Carries international news and articles of educational worth . . . The Christian Science Monitor is the only newspaper I allow the boys to read...
...graduate of the War College to be commander-in-chief of the great United States Fleet is a crime against the people of this country. . . . Appointment of an officer lacking this training to be the head of the Naval Academy at Anapolis is nothing less than a scandal. . . . More than half of the officers given preference in the transfers recently announced and to take effect this summer are not graduates of the War College. The service is disgusted with the situation, disgusted that the same old game of service politics is being played...