Word: scandalizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grace and favor" cottage on the grounds of Windsor Castle. If the younger princess found him delightful, so too did her mother and her sister. Elizabeth, Margaret and Philip were frequent and informal guests at the Townsend cottage. Even after Townsend last year brought the breath of scandal close to Windsor by divorcing his wife for adultery, the Queen Mother let it be known that she would soon make him head of her private household at Clarence House...
...been true, Mayor Peirce would have been neither tried nor convicted. How well known is the fact that many, many cities of the country, including New York City, tolerate gambling, vice and thuggery of every kind, including the present condition of the New York waterfront, probably the worst scandal of neglect of law enforcement in the history of the country . . . Thank God, the reputation of New Bedford does not rest in the hands of TIME magazine...
...after the meeting, Johannesburg's Boer newspapers published photos showing whites and Negroes gathered together, captioned: NEGRO MEN GOT SEATS WHILE WHITE WOMEN HAD TO STAND. All over South Africa, good, churchgoing Boers goggled at these revelations of Liberal wickedness, and cried Skande (a scandal). The respectable anti-Malanites were also scandalized. Cried the Rand Daily Mail: "South Africa is not yet ready for Liberalism." Before returning to Natal, where he works in a tuberculosis sanitarium for Zulus, Alan Paton had a parting word: "He who waits until the time is ripe often waits until it is rotten...
McGranery's frankness startled the committee. In three important and controversial cases in Justice in 1945-46, he testified, normal procedure was upset and his office was bypassed. The only person who could have arranged the bypassing was Tom Clark. One case was the Kansas City vote-fraud scandal in the 1946 Democratic primary, in which there was no prosecution despite ballot-box stuffing, dynamiting and theft of evidence. Another was the famed case of the left-wing Amerasia magazine, which was caught with a file full of Government documents (some of them top-secret). No one involved went...
News of the latest grain scandal first leaked out last month, when Houston's port commission fired Manager Fellrath and his assistants; CCC's Cunningham promptly resigned, and New Orleans...