Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...King Albert. Fortunately, the throne next came to young King Leopold III, today easily the outstanding European crowned head in strength of mind and leadership. Last week His Majesty, having presided for some days over the vain efforts of Belgian politicians to find a successor for able, honest but scandal- seared Premier Paul van Zeeland, who recently resigned (TIME, Nov.1), calmly announced that Dr. van Zeeland will continue in office as Premier while King Leopold this week makes a visit of state in London to King George...
...Dundalk, Irish Free State, Julia Clark of Glasgow, Scotland, was sentenced to one month in jail and deportation, for violating Section 18 of the 1935 criminal code (de Valera's vice law) which forbids "any act ... offending modesty or causing scandal or injuring the morals of the community." Her offense: Kissing her sweetheart in public...
...interested in seeing Miss Honie's interpretation of "Prince igor." Her acting is quite equal to that of the handsome Tyrone Power who plays Prince charming. His Royal Highness meets the skating instructress of an Alpine Hotel (Miss Honie) while both are skilling, the outcome being an international scandal...
...been passed on any penal case. . . . No better conditions exist for workers than those prevailing in the service of the Pope. . . . They have enough to spend on simple amusements. They are secure and happy in the highest sense of social reform. . . . There can never be a breath of scandal. Family and social probity are an obligatory minimum. . . . The Pope is air-minded, permits the cardinals to fly, and has even projected a fleet of helicopters...
...Westminster since 1925; in London. Dean Norris, whose parish church was Westminster Abbey. was an able amateur painter, won honors exhibiting at the Royal Academy. As Dean of York he raised ?50,000 for the restoration of the famed York Minster windows; as Dean of Westminster he raised a scandal by criticizing some of its memorials as "atrocities." Last spring as Dean, he organized the ecclesiastical ceremonies at the coronation of George...