Word: scandalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...county grand jury began hearings on the case and U.S. Attorney Robert Tieken checked up on possible income tax evasions, blasé Chicagoans and their newspapers quickly lost interest. In the major leagues of Illinois and Cook County scandal. $444,000 is a minor-league steal. But Treasurer Paschen, firing two suspects with more to go. sighed like a man just missed by lightning: "I'm deeply shocked that such a thing could have gone on in the office. I knew nothing of it, of course...
...almost four years the mysterious drowning of a Roman carpenter's daughter has been postwar Italy's biggest political scandal. The discovery of the half-clad body of 21-year-old Wilma Montesi on a beach near Rome in April 1953 very nearly brought down the government of then Premier Mario Scelba. Because of it, the chief of Italy's national police, the chief of the Roman police force and Foreign Minister Attilio Piccioni resigned. When the Communist daily L'Unita solemnly declared that the Montesi case was a symbol of the moral bankruptcy...
...Black Swan. The principal source of these accusations was Montagna's discarded mistress, Milanese Socialite Anna Maria Caglio, known to Italy's avid scandal readers as "the black swan." In September 1954, largely on the strength of Anna Maria's circumstantial tale of sex orgies, dope trafficking and corruption in high places, Piero Piccioni was formally charged with "culpable homicide." Arrested along with him were Montagna and the ex-chief of the Rome police...
...piece of the puzzle, all Italy read column after, column of newsprint on the trial, searching suspiciously for signs of favoritism or a fix. And, under the eyes of all Italy, the Montesi affair slowly but unmistakably changed from "Italy's Dreyfus case" to a sordid little family scandal...
...Wound & the Beau. Behaving like her own very private eye on the spoor of a family scandal, Mary McCarthy gives the reader facts about her early self. She was born in Seattle in 1912, daughter of Roy ("poor Roy," the family called him) McCarthy, an Irish-American lawyer. Mary was early conscious of the special Irish-American quality of traditional resentment, liberation, and (on emigration) emergence into a new minority. Furthermore, her family history was complicated not only by a scattering of Protestants but by that Jewish grandmother. The Irish and the Jews, most self-conscious of immigrants, set their...