Word: scandalizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What to do? Rise and proclaim this scandal to the room at large? Or wait and organize? Reason tottered! Was it imagination or was there indeed a look of furtive guilt on the faces of those wicked men behind the desk? "You dastards!" hissed the Vagabond (but not very loud) as he glided from the room...
...hand of an assassin. The War finally killed the old Emperor. The pension he had given Frau Schratt the Austrian Republic promptly canceled. But she still had plenty of assets: the neat villa, jewels, antiques. Her greatest asset was what she remembered of the scandal-riddled House of Habsburg but on that asset, despite the incessant wheedlings of publishers' agents, she has never drawn. Instead she mortgaged her villa. Last week at 78 she was still living in it, selling one by one her jewels and antiques to keep inviolate her royal recollections...
...suspension by no means marked the end of the pepper pool's spicy history (TIME, Feb. 18). For by last week it was clear that Garabed Bishirgian, the shrewd little naturalized Armenian "Pepper King," had fine friends in high places. Broadly hinted was a British "Stavisky" scandal. Names of Cabinet and Parliament members, big bankers and business"-men, were indiscriminately linked to the great commodity speculation of the past two years. Wild as such talk probably was, there were among the big stockholders in James & Shakespeare, Ltd., the fallen pepper king's trading company, two names known...
Journeying up to Birmingham for the week end, Chancellor Chamberlain addressed his family's ever faithful constituents. They could safely ignore, he counseled, ugly rumors that out of the recent ruin of prominent London pepper speculators there would soon erupt a British Stavisky scandal involving financiers and statesmen. Pooh-poohed the Chancellor of the Exchequer: "The pepper crisis has been cleared up, and I don't think there is as much as a sneeze to be heard in the City today...
...translated "wild ox." During the Middle Ages the belief was prevalent that the savage unicorn was soothed by the sight of a virgin, would approach softly and lay his head in a true virgin's lap. Though this notion gave rise to no little scandal, no one managed to trap the elusive beast by virgins or otherwise. A bit of unicorn horn ground to powder was regarded by a medieval physician as the most potent remedy he could administer, but because undisputed horns turned up so rarely the price ranged from...