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Word: scandalous (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that this theory leads Mrs. Shephard into difficulties is an understatement: it practically floors her. Pursuing it with the vehement, triumphant air of a gossip on the trail of scandal, she gives pages of evidence that Whitman contradicted himself-which he never denied- pages to show that despite his professions of all-embracing love he had explosions of temper, pages to show that he wrote a lot of nonsense and that his disciples wrote even more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Baffled Critic | 4/18/1938 | See Source »

...University of Kansas, Author White spent the next ten years on his father's newspaper. Varying his work as reporter, he made several trips to Europe, served a term (1931-32) in the Kansas legislature, in 193 2 was Republican County Chairman. Kansans who remember the Finney scandal (1933) will recognize where his book's material came from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Crisis on Main Street | 4/11/1938 | See Source »

Fools for Scandal (Warner Bros.) cost $900,000, of which harum-scarum Actress Carole Lombard got $150,000, Belgian-born Actor Fernand Gravet $50,000. Less of a drain on the budget was the $25 a day paid for several weeks to cafe society's No. 1 hitchhiker, "Prince" Mike Romanoff (real name: Harry Gerguson). Actor Gravet got his first Hollywood job (The King and the Chorus Girl) year and a half ago because Producer-Director Mervyn LeRoy thought he resembled Edward VIII. Prince Mike got his because there is no one Hollywood appreciates more than a persistent pretender...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 4, 1938 | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

...when Fools for Scandal was last week presented to U. S. cinemaudiences, Actor-Prince Mike's lowbrowed, pseudo-Romanoff visage had joined the innumerable faces on the cutting room floor. What remained was more fustian than fun, a pursuit through high & low worlds of a popular, penniless French marquis working his way, via the scullery, into a cinema star's boudoir. In spite of Actress Lombard's strident earthiness, the result is as unearthly as Actor Gravet's French-flavored, concave British inflection, as wooden as Charlie McCarthy-whom Actor Gravet, in claw-hammer coat & starchy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 4, 1938 | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

After finishing Fools for Scandal, Producer LeRoy, a son-in-law of Triumvir Harry M. Warner, left the family plot for a production berth at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, safe from barbed thrusts about nepotism. Sawed-off, narrow-eyed, cigar-waving Producer LeRoy is still hailed, at 37, as the Boy Wonder. At five he fell three stories in the San Francisco earthquake, landed unhurt on a mattress. At nine, engaged at $2.50 a week in a stage production of Barbara Frietchie to watch for the Rebels from a prop tree, he fell out of the tree, got a raise because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 4, 1938 | 4/4/1938 | See Source »

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