Word: scandalizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...serious trouble. One Senator after another came to tell the President that, for the party's good, he should ask Chairman Huston to resign. Chagrined though he was with his old friend's behavior, President Hoover was unwilling to turn him out precipitately, seemed hopeful that the scandal would, somehow, subside without his direct interference. In spite of Mr. Hoover's attitude, betting men about Washington would give long odds to anyone who thought that Mr. Huston would remain G. O. P. Chairman for many more weeks...
...split on free-trade v. tariff; 1905-11, Leader of the Conservative Opposition; 1915-16, First Lord of the Admiralty during the Battle of Jutland, after which his cold, minute announcement of British casualties in ships and men almost gave the public an impression of German victory, created a scandal; 1916-19, Foreign Secretary, Chief of the British diplomatic and military mission to the U. S., Second British Delegate to the Peace Conference, signer of the Treaty of Versailles; 1920, Chief Delegate of Britain to the League of Nations; 1921-22, Chief of the British Delegation to the Washington Conference...
With compassion and bitter sorrow, St. Gandhi imagines he has seen the Christian world brutalized and its morals stultified by the Machine. He knows that in Japan (the sole Asiatic nation which has mechanized itself) women now work all night in the textile mills (a scandal against which Lancashire bitterly protests), and in India itself Mr. Gandhi has seen enough of the Machine Age and Big Business to convince him that these things must be destroyed if mankind would save its immortal soul. Yet Historian Upton Close, sympathetic though he is with Asians, acutely as he realizes the difficulty...
Pennsylvania Republican primaries are notoriously extravagant. Some two million dollars was spent by three Senate candidates in the 1926 contest which resulted in the Vare nomination and scandal. Nebraska's Senator Norris has already moved to keep the Grundy-Davis campaign expenditures under strictest scrutiny by a special Senate committee...
...Scandal), made five-hour speeches in Parliament, bet foolishly on innumerable horses, was buried with high ritual in Westminster Abbey. He was a breath-taking swell; far sweller than the lacy-sleeved heroes of his dramas. Even Captain Jack Absolute of The Rivals pales by comparison with his dashing creator. Captain Jack, as everyone well-versed in English drama knows, conducts his courtship of Miss Lydia Languish under an assumed name, because she is so rich herself that she fancies a penurious lover. Lydia is in care of the imposing, loquacious Mrs. Malaprop, who moves with the majesty...