Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Well aware is Boss Curry of the Hall's present ticklish situation, for which there is an interesting parallel in the last great Tammany scandal. In 1912, the year before Boss Murphy had Governor Sulzer impeached, a gambler named Herman Rosenthal was killed on the eve of his giving damaging evidence against venal policemen. Within four months Police Lieutenant Charles Becker, "Lefty Louis" Rosenberg, "Gyp the Blood" Horowitz, "Whitey" Lewis and "Dago Frank" Ciro-fici were sentenced to death for the murder. The reaction to this affair gave the State a Reform Governor (Charles S. Whitman), the city a Reform...
...whom she was to record The Barcarole. She drank too much, spoiled the record; the musical director was discharged (TIME, Oct. 24, 1927). Last week when she sued Pathe Studios, Inc. for breach of contract to make sound cinemas, Pathe explained: "Miss Lewis became intoxicated and involved in a scandal." Hearing about these charges in Paris, Mary Lewis protested: "Im a good girl! I've never been...
Yale fraternity leaders, two days after Alumni Day, signed a pledge rigorously to abstain from "packing"?i. e. signing up their prospective members before the annual official calling week?a perennial campus scandal. The Yale Daily News pointed out that the fraternities did well to sign a pledge: one false step might "consign them to unenviable and irreconcilable doom...
Svietlana's pups are born at the Prince's country estate. And of course, Siedoi having been the father, there is a great scandal. But nothing can be done and the old Prince is kindly and forgiving, even to the rascally assistant kennelman Peter who left the gate open. And the summer passes with great happiness and much excitement, for it is known that the Grand Duke Nikita, the Tsar's viciously cruel old uncle,† has invited himself to hunt with the Prince in the autumn. He is coming with his whole hunting train...
...Julius Abbey was not the kind of husband-a young wife likes. He had money, social standing (in his small Middle-Western city), a cold but irascible disposition and no charm. Melton knew nothing when she married him, but she learned fast, soon scared Julius with threats of scandal into letting her live a fairly independent life. They shared the same house, but inhabited different parts of it. Some nights Julius gave stag dinners. Other nights Melton held her salon. Melton's devotees, calling themselves sophisticates, had a high old intellectual time; despised Julius, thought Melton the world...