Word: scandalizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This generation, brought up to understand that the boys of a century ago were polite little drones spending all of their time at the few books the country boasted, will receive an enjoyable shock at Hill's account of the antics of his confreres. He writes "there is a scandal-here, I don't care who says to the contrary . . . There is nothing but mischief in their heads from morn to night. . . Our windows were broken almost every night and at last we moved to the third story of Massachusetts. Here we were at peace until last Friday night, when...
George White's "Scandals" starting at the Metropolitan on Friday is reported to be as elaborate and as spectacular as any of White's successes on the Broadway stage. When the famous producer left for Hollywood, he took with him his original galaxy of "Scandals" girls, song writers, dance directors and technicians. This staff has produced ten songs, eight ultra modern dance revues combined with a series of fifteen blackouts that give promise of being the high points of the production. Interspersed with the song numbers, revues and blackouts is a romantic story involving the principals of the show...
...through the ranks of French politics, striking in the dark like a vampire at large. Paris newspapers, seldom more than 16 pages, are not given to over-writing the news. Of the 30 columns of news in last Sunday's Matin, 14 were definitely concerned with the Stavisky scandal...
...first became an international figure in 1924. Amid a cyclone of charges and counter-charges Alexandre Millerand was accused of having interfered in party affairs, was forced to resign the Presidency. Politicians turned instinctively to the round little fellow who had never been connected with any political scandal, a bachelor, a Protestant, and after a lifetime in politics, still a poor...
...education. "Sincerity forces me reluctantly to declare," cried he, "that no inconsiderable part of the money, the genius and the effort expended on secondary and college education is wasted. ... No credits are so frozen as many that are given in high schools and colleges. The facts are a professional scandal...