Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...idyll lasted only a short time. In accordance with her usual customs, she talked too much. Rumors reached the ear of Il Duce, which made him doubt both the discretion, and fidelity of the pretty foreigner. A Minister warned Mussolini that he was risking the annoyance of a petty scandal...
...scandal of narcotic addicts who practice medicine reared its head in Chicago last week when Dr. Roscoe Lloyd Sensenich of South Bend, Ind., onetime president of the Indiana State Medical Association, upbraided State medical boards for not revoking the licenses of such addicts and medical societies for not ousting them from membership. Said he: "The number of medical narcotic addicts has been estimated to number one addict per 100 physicians. Their probable future offers little of professional or social value and much of liability and danger to the public in their continuation in the practice of medicine...
...most graceful aspects of 20th-century industrialism is the practice of a trade group hiring an impeccable individual to sponsor it at the court of public opinion. Like baseball after the "Black Sox" scandal and the cinema following the Arbuckle case, last week the U. S. liquor business, acutely aware that it exists by sufferance, acquired a highly respectable front man. For a reputed $50,000 a year, William Forbes Morgan became a part of the Distilled Spirits Institute's "program for the enlargement of the scope of ... activities . . . with special reference to a broader policy of public relations...
...Kings (by Maxwell Anderson; Theatre Guild, producer). Crown Prince Rudolph of Austria-Hungary, a rakish young man with liberal tendencies, was found dead in the hunting lodge at Mayerling on Jan. 30, 1889. With him, also dead, lay the Baroness Mary Vetsera. He was 31, she 18. The scandal shook the Austro-Hungarian Empire to its foundations. And although Emperor Franz Joseph hushed up every detail of the tragedy so thoroughly that the motivation for the deaths remains mysterious to this day, the Mayerling affair has been pawed at by sensation mongers for two generations. In The Masque of Kings...
...only 47 out of 69 years. On the Luneta, on which there had been erected a tall, glass- enclosed, air-conditioned altar, two downpours of rain scattered the faithful who came to worship in crowds of from 50,000 to 200,000 at a time. Also, to the scandal of strait-laced Filipinos, the Congress coincided with the annual Philippine Carnival, a 16-day combination of Mardi Gras, county fair and Coney Island which paralyzes Manila business for weeks. But the director general of the Carnival, Arsenio Luz, was chairman of the Congress Ways & Means Committee, and he canceled...