Word: scandalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...produced by Max Gordon) is 26 scenes worth of life among big-shot Manhattan intellectuals. It displays them at sleek dinner parties, in cabs and sport cars, in offices and boudoirs, at smart restaurants and resorts. It shows them two-timing and double-crossing, ladling out flattery, dishing up scandal. It portrays in particular the Mitchell family-a brilliant, middle-aged publisher (Paul McGrath), his selfish daughter, his muddled son, and his wife Laura (Dorothy Stickney), who is clumsy and crushed in a world at once beyond and beneath her. But Laura ends up a kind of worm who turns...
College football has grown tremendously--enough to earn itself the status of a "national scandal." It has shaken the conservative foundations of many colleges, making them bid in a competitive human market. In return, football has offered these colleges prestige and money, not only to attract and support better football players, but also to bolster the college's position in the educational world...
...object of this indignation was a short (40-minute), 2½-year-old, second-rate Italian film called The Miracle. Thanks to court action, denunciations and counter-denunciations in the newspapers, picket lines and counter-picket lines outside the theater, the little movie was a sensation, a scandal and a box-office...
...Work We Go. Fire Commissioner George Monaghan reacted to all this sprightly news by hurriedly calling association officers back to duty, and starting a full investigation of the matter. The new scandal also set off another round of shake-ups in city departments which had been jittering nervously ever since the cops ran afoul of the big Brooklyn gambling exposé (TIME...
...scandal was the third in six years, all three tied up with games in Madison Square Garden...