Word: scandalizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Legislative Hobby: refining the law. He is vigilant in advising the Senate when legislative precedents are apt to be established. His bills have been of legal nature, or else pertaining to the oil scandal. One of the latter allowed Oilman Henry M. Blackmer, of Denver, to be subpenaed abroad and fined...
Compensation Plan. When the U. S. entered the War, President Wilson inaugurated the war risk insurance system as a means of avoiding the kind of pension payments which were such a scandal after the Civil War. In 1919 was inaugurated the system of compensating those actually disabled in War service. Veterans' organizations proudly disapproved of any pension system and the whole structure of governmental aid was built away from that old practice. On the theory that they would never be pensioned, veterans demanded and received from Congress a Bonus which was called "adjusted compensation." The word "pension...
...Lady of Scandal (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). When a good play is turned into a picture by the photographing of its acts, scene by scene, it loses more than the artifice of flesh and blood. Its framework stiffens. Graces that shone brilliantly behind the footlights seem antiquated in the more fluid form for which they were not intended. This comedy of Lonsdale's, The High Road, is not really oldfashioned. Its situation-the consternation of an English family when faced with the possible marriage of one of its scions with a Gaiety-girl-is ingeniously handled. Ruth Chatterton and Basil...
Marie's Return. A Queen like Marie can do no wrong in Rumania. What if a charred scandal had blazed up for a moment with the ripping out of her telephone? The realistic attitude of typical Rumanians is merely this: No one disputes the legitimacy of King Carol, Prince Nicholas or their sisters, the former Queen Elisabeth of Greece and the present Queen Marie of Jugoslavia. If, after giving King Ferdinand these four children, Her Majesty then gave Prince Babu Stirbey her last and youngest child. Princess Ileana, is that anyone's business but her own? In Rumania...
...announcement that a board had been appointed to investigate the entire Harvard employment situation sounds the knell of a stalking ghost of scandal that has haunted the respectable corridors of Lehman Hall for nearly an entire semester. Such an announcement made sooner might have avoided much that was unpleasant and unnecessary, but it is not for a mere mortal agency to question the motions of the spheres. The consolation that something is actually to be done effaces some of the scandal even if it does leave the blot of mismanaged press relations still in a conspicuous foreground...