Word: scandalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nothing very good happened to the Baltimore Orioles last year. A lot happened to Baltimore's Mayor Thomas D'Alesandro. who helped to get the Orioles their big-league franchise-and what happened to Tommy was all bad: his son was involved in a teen-age vice scandal, his wife admitted receiving $11,000 from a city contractor, and the contractor was convicted of conspiracy to defraud the city. For a time, both D'Alesandro and the Orioles were flat on their backs: the ball club in the cellar and the mayor in the hospital with...
...Jacques Prevert script is well written, and the dialogue both mirrors and openly remarks on English "common sense." Old maxims are mixed--"Where there's an antidote, there's a poison"--and new ones made up--"Better a full beard than an empty pocket." There is much fear of scandal and it appears that there are a number of things that gentlemen don't do, although the gentlemen go ahead and do them anyway, in as clumsy fashion as possible. The costuming, which for some reason includes kilts, is appropriately ludicrous...
Before the Senate Judiciary subcommittee on refugee problems, New Yorker Corsi loudly played to the hilt the role of a martyred champion of refugees who are seeking to enter the U.S. The refugee act. he said, became a "national scandal" because of the way it was administered by "a security gang" led by Robert W. Scott McLeod, the State Department's security director. Cried Corsi: "The administration of the act is wholly dominated by the psychology of security. Refugees are investigated to death . . . The investigation, the police job, is the thing, not the admission of refugees. That is just...
...spreading controversy looked like a "scandal" to Robert Cardinal Bellarmine, then the church's chief theologian. The rebuke which Galileo received at the hands of Bellarmine's Holy Office in 1616 (year of the deaths of Shakespeare and Cervantes) was mild. In sum, he was ordered not to "hold or defend" the proposition that the earth revolved around the sun. Galileo did not interpret this as a gag order, and over the next eight years cautiously busied himself, in letters and pamphlets, with thinly disguised proselytizing for the Copernican view...
...turned out to be the best of the evening. Clare Scott sings a song called "Mogambo Rag"--musically, lyric--and performance wise a perfect revue number. Miss Scott's abilities have been extolled before, and she has only gained in charm and attractivness since her appearance in School for Scandal. To my mind she was the spark which the whole show needed, and every sketch she appeared in was better for it. Had anyone else done "Mogambo Rag" it might have seemed disgusting; from Miss Scott it was droll and decent...