Word: scandalizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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These circumstances, and the great grey circumstance of Belfast itself, where the Catholic Irish tread with resentful circumspection amid the Protestant majority, compose the theater for Dev's tragedy. He is more vulnerable to scandal than an English princess when Cuff's young niece arrives from Dublin. Soon there is talk about Una and Dev. Love leads him to desperate measures: he buys a Tattersall waistcoat and takes dancing lessons. One awful night the high-spirited Una finds the answer to the question: "Where can we go on Sunday in Belfast?" She goes with Dev to his basement...
...that began in a fashionable, upper-class Episcopal home in Philadelphia, ended in an English Roman Catholic convent, and may be crowned by beatification by the Roman Catholic Church. In The Case of Cornelia Connelly (Pantheon; $3.75), British Roman Catholic Author Juliana Wadham brings back to life a reverberating scandal that burst upon the U.S. and Britain in 1849, when the Catholic Church was struggling to re-establish itself in England...
...antipapist English press of the period, Pierce's next move was meat for scandal. In 1849, only a short time after he had tried unsuccessfully to get a cardinal's hat, he made another spectacular switch ("my allegiance to Rome was a culpable delusion"), sued Cornelia for resumption of his marital rights, and renounced his priesthood. He won the judgment; the Court of Arches ordered Cornelia to leave the convent and return to her husband or go to jail. For weeks Cornelia kept street clothes in her cell, ready to leave the country if Pierce or the authorities...
...scandal had its inevitable effect on Cornelia's new religious order. It was not until eight years after her death that full papal approval was granted to the Society of the Holy Child Jesus. But in spite of opposition from the hierarchy and sniping from Pierce (he continued to flail the Catholic Church until his death at 80 in 1883), Cornelia enlarged her order. The society spread throughout England, and in her lifetime chapters were opened in France and the U.S., where the society now runs 36 schools, including Rosemont College on Philadelphia's Main Line...
Died. Murray W. Garsson, 67, sometime millionaire munitions maker and financier, who was convicted in 1947 in a bribery and conspiracy scandal involving Government war contracts, served 19 months in prison (1949-51), and ended his days homeless, borrowing small sums from his doctor for barbiturates; of a brain hemorrhage; in New York City. At war's end Garsson and his brother Henry, a consulting engineer, pasted together a paper empire (once valued at $78 million) of contracts for shells, mortars and aircraft parts, worked with lavish expense accounts through the chairman of the House Military Affairs Committee, Kentucky...