Word: scandalizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...France Dimanche keeps a certain perspective. It rarely runs rape stories. They are all right for prudish U.S. and British papers, Corre thinks, but the "sexually enlightened" French are uninterested in such sordid affairs unless they have an amusing twist. His curled-lip philosophy of journalism: "A newspaper is scandalous if it doesn't print scandal...
Circle No. 3. John Amery deserved a circle of perdition to himself. He was the worthless son of a distinguished father, Leopold Amery, Secretary of State for India in the Churchill government. He had been convicted 74 times on traffic charges. He had caused a scandal by falling in love with the prostitute who nightly occupied the most conspicuous spot in Piccadilly. He was a bankrupt. He had been an aide to Francisco Franco. During the war he joined the Germans and organized the British Free Corps...
...power in the Loyal Order of Moose (director general since 1906), he pushed its membership from 247 to more than 800,000, founded its two major charities (Moosehaven, Fla., for the aged; Mooseheart, Ill., for widows & orphans). In 1933 he was one of five acquitted in a Moose lottery scandal (his alleged cut: $172,300) in which three associates were convicted of conspiracy...
...relax--their quarters. It has judged the social life of these men to be more important than the puritanical mores of out society, more important than the jittery nerves of mothers of local college girls, and more important than whatever publicity might--but almost never does--result in the scandal-hungry Boston press. It has also judged that the social life of undergraduates is not equally important...
...faded springtime appetite of the newspaper-reading public was stimulated by a savory item on Fritz Mandl's latest marital difficulties. Mandl's third wife, Herta Schneider, sued for legal separation (divorce is outlawed in Argentina), charged Fritz dragged her around their swanky apartment by the hair. Scandal-loving Crítica plastered the story all over the paper, complete with cheesecake pictures of Hedy Lamarr, Mandl's second wife, recounted Mandl's efforts to suppress the film Ecstasy...