Word: scandalizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Billie Sol Estes scandal last week claimed its first elective victim. It was, ironically, a Republican and an old foe of Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman...
...Charles Murphy to be an honest man through and through." Murphy could only be grateful for such testimonials. Throughout nine weeks of hearings by a Senate subcommittee, past and present Agriculture Department underlings had fingered him as the official responsible for decisions that helped make Billie Sol Estes a scandal...
...making his first try for state wide office, Sawyer won by a surprising 17,000 votes - which, in Nevada, is a landslide. Since then, he has given the state an efficient, scandal-free administration, tightened control over gambling, attracted light industry. That record should be enough for his election unless one of those wild cards takes...
...Billetdoux's Tchin-Tchin (the word equals hello or goodbye, like ciao in Italian), a tale about lovers who meet as a result of a love affair between his wife and her husband (Oct. 18) A limited-run production of Sheridan's The School for Scandal opens on Broadway Jan. 21, starring Sir Ralph Richardson and Sir John Gielgud, who will also direct. Sidney Kingsley's first play in eight years is called Night Life (Oct. 23). It takes place in a key club, has 28 people onstage throughout, and is written in what Kingsley calls...
...laissez faire, Melbourne was laissez faire incarnate. In both his public and private life, he let people do as they pleased, reprimanded them at most with an ironic comment. He rarely restrained his wife Caroline, an impulsive romantic, whose affair with Lord Byron was the scandal of the time. When Byron finally left her, she made her servants wear buttons with the inscription ''Ne Crede Byron [Do not believe Byron]" and slashed her wrists; Byron retaliated by sending her a bracelet made of the hair of his latest paramour...