Word: scandalizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Congressman LaGuardia keeps more than the U. S. Judiciary under his alert little eye. Last year, as the Republican candidate for Mayor of New York City, he charged "a loathsome scandal" in the city judiciary, accused a Tammany judge, Magistrate Albert H. Vitale, of having borrowed money from Arnold Rothstein, murdered gambler. Last week Magistrate Vitale found himself removed from the bench because the LaGuardia charge was true...
...three wives, each of whom bore him two children. The first died; the second (beautiful, dashing, red-headed Genevieve Chandler) was divorced after a scandal. The present Mrs. Phipps, is the daughter of a onetime Mayor of Denver...
...horrible confession, that. And one--which even a hardened offender like the Vagabond would scarcely mention in private did his conscious not bind him to expose the false teachings of a nefarious publication. In its day this Mount Auburn Street magazine has caused many a scandal for one reason or another, but teaching erroneous history is something new. Go to your barber's and turn to page 52 of the current number of the Lampoon. What do you find insinuated there? That Will, who as everyone knows rests in Stratford-on-Avon, is buried in the Abbey...
...comedy of Latin Playwright Terence (circa 185-159 B. c.) which in turn was based on two lost plays by Greek Playwright Menander (342-291 B. c.). On Brynos, one of the lesser islands of the Greek Archipelago, lives Chrysis the courtesan, the woman from Andros. She is the scandal of the island, not because of her loose behavior, for she is both dignified and circumspect, but by her "airs and graces." She gives weekly banquets, to which she invites all the most attractive young men: they discuss high matters of philosophy. "She cited often the saying of Plato that...
...Significance. Peggy Joyce's publishers have played their hand well. They have somehow induced her to sign her name to a book which, if not quite so funny as Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, has the names and scandal of more real people in it. She is easily the most famous Woman...