Word: scandalizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Governor Thomas Dewey, who got his flying start in politics as an investigator, is now in the embarrassing position of seeing some of his closest political friends caught in a Dewey-ordered investigation. Last week another chapter in New York's harness-racing scandal disclosed that some of the most highly placed Republicans in the state had made fantastic profits from the racket-ridden $272 million-a-year New York trotting tracks...
...confessional scatterbursts, the old scoundrel tells all. Nosing out some little-known scandal about-some well-known man, Crome would disguise it thinly in two or three chapters of a projected second novel, submit it to the victim through a go-between, and cheerfully agree to suppress it for a price. After World War I, Blackmailer Crome ruefully relates, the British upper classes lost their manners as well as their money, and his brand of crime no longer paid...
...though it were a dresser drawer, for bits of plot. The search yields a rather weird assortment: an attractive cigar-counter girl who goes out to dinner with her customers but sees to it that she goes home alone, who is engaged to a married man, who suffers scandal without sin when another married man dies of a heart attack in her room, who inherits most of his money in his brand-new, last-minute will, who has to fight for the money in court, who wins it only to learn that it belongs to the Government in back taxes...
...Scandal. Montagna promptly instituted slander proceedings against Editor Muto, who also awaits trial under a 1931 Fascist law for "having published false and adulterated news." The press of all parties, and in particular the Communist L'Unità, made the most of the scandal. It had everything: decadent aristocracy, orgies, playgirls, dope, and even a mystery-the still unsolved story of what happened to poor Wilma Montesi...
...sick in the infirmary, he listens at the bathroom wall with Sam Petrie and hears the buxom nurse and the school hero making love in the next room. Sam swears Anthony to secrecy, then blackmails the nurse and steals morphine, which he sells in town. At last the scandal is brought to a teacher whom Anthony admires. Trying to persuade Tony to disclose the identity of the guilty boy, the teacher tells him that the question is "as simple as cops and robbers . . . You've got to let your conscience decide which side is wrong and which is right...