Word: scandalizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...home. Growled the Daily Express: "Maybe Lady Garbett is a deplorable farmer. Maybe the Ministry of Agriculture is fully justified in its contention that her land is neglected. But is not Britain a free country? Is she not the rightful owner of her own farm? It is a scandal and scar on British justice...
SOLVENCY CHECK of Texas insurance companies, growing out of last year's insurance scandal (TIME, Dec. 26), will put 34 more companies out of business. All told, under tough new laws, 94 of 1,313 insurance companies in state failed to meet financial requirements. However, policy holders will lose no money since solvent firms will handle their policies either through mergers or reinsurance...
...Cambridge community has been treated with a book composed of sensationalist scandal (resembling a Cambridge Confidential). with the pained, painful cries of an upset individual, and with a series of brilliant insights into the sins and omissions of a group of human beings. Whether it was Mr. Raditsa's intention or not (and Mr. Raditsa's intentions will fill the air of tutors' discussions for days)the sixth issue of i.e. has appeared following the publication of the last Advocate for this college year. Unable to reply at length until next fall, we nonetheless ask the CRIMSON, relying...
...editors of the Advocate, one of the organizations criticized in the recent i.e., replied in a letter calling the issue a mixture of "sensationalist scandal, the painful cries of an upset individual, and a series of brilliant insight." The recent i.e. had charged that the Advocate tabboed the discussion of literature...
...last survivor of nine children born to William Henry Herndon, Abraham Lincoln's longtime (21 years) law partner and biographer (Life of Lincoln); in Springfield, Ill. The Lincoln Herndon knew was an odd, thoughtful man ("the loveliest since Christ"), whose wife's temper was a town scandal and who brought his children to the law office where they "bent the points of all the pens, overturned inkstands, threw the pencils into the spittoon...