Word: scandalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...country or on a campus with a shred of public morality this remark would be a scandal: Goodman might well be expelled from college, in any case he would be ostracized by many of his fellow-students. It is just accident that Americans live in the only major country of the world which has not, in the last fifty years, been a battlefield; but we think we can "beat" the war game, or "fix" it--like a basketball game, or a West Point examination--without taking any risks or really exerting ourselves...
...country or on a campus with a shred of public morality this remark would be a scandal: Goodman might well be expelled from college, in any case he would be ostracized by many of his fellow-students. It is just accident that Americans live in the only major country of the world which has not, in the last fifty years, been a battlefield; but we think we can "beat" the war game, or "fix" it--like a basketball game, or a West Point examination--without taking any risks or really exerting ourselves...
...with fascination as he screwed in light bulbs. Now he is a combination court jester and general handy man, recruits poker partners and, occasionally, pretty dancing partners; Tabet, Pulley and a half dozen similar hangers-on are generally believed to be neck-deep in graft, were implicated in the scandal of the sale of faulty arms to the Egyptian army, uncovered after the Arab-Israeli...
Last week, news of the scandal splashed into the newspapers. It was the first time members of the Imperial family had ever been involved in a divorce, the first time such stories had been bandied about in the papers. The principals concerned spoke with remarkable candor. Of his former wife, the ex-prince said sadly: "She is past the age of 40, but she is unaware of the dangers of the world and of men. She acts and lives like an ordinary girl younger than 20." Of her former husband, the ex-princess complained in words that showed...
...question about Hollywood morals. It has brought her some censure (one letter writer habitually addresses her as "Bitch-Jezebel-Gardner"). Yet it actually seems to be helping, rather than hurting, her earning power. Reports Columnist Sidney Skolsky solemnly: "Ava worried. She lost weight. But now she has found that scandal can't hurt her." Her current picture, Show Boat, is breaking box-office records across the country. In Lone Star, Metro cast her opposite Clark Gable, still one of the greatest favors in its power to bestow, and it has two more important pictures lined up for her. Other...