Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...assert itself. "I had to consummate it or vanish." His friendship with the inoffensive Sparling made the thought of stealing his wife revolting. Nor could the three friends arrange a divorce because Shaw could not afford to marry and Sparling could not afford to be divorced. Moreover, the scandal would have damaged the Cause. Shaw left. To his astonishment Sparling left soon after. May Morris got a divorce, resumed her maiden name. Although Shaw recognized that it was his own fault for not having told her how he felt before she married, he could never get over a feeling...
...loyalties must be overcome if the United States is to develop as she has so far. South America represents a gold-mine for American interests, and this mine has scarcely been tapped. Now, with war looming on the European horizon, with England's "Royal salesman" embroiled in a messy scandal and with internecine strife besetting Japan, the stage is set for an immediate American entry into the Pan-American economic scene. The present policy of reciprocal trade agreements has not only brought a great measure of prosperity to formerly impoverished South-American states, as well as to ourselves...
...Hitherto the whole subject has been treated with a sort of hush-hush secrecy, as if the famed "cram" parlors were sacrosanct pillars of Harvard society and above the taint of investigation or suspicion. With the enrollment lists to these institutions growing steadily each year and with an annual scandal involving similarity of term themes among habitues, both the University and the Council have chosen a splendid occasion to launch this new drive against what may in time become a distinct detriment and danger. At present no one can point an accusing finger at the tutoring schools of Harvard Square...
...could keep appointments elsewhere. Reiner clashed only once with Stage Director Armando Agnini, over a new $1,800 steam apparatus for Gotterddmmerung to help Valhalla go up realistically in flames & smoke. The conductor barred the steam because it hissed too loud. Pleaded Agnini : "But, Maestro, there will be a scandal if we don't have the steam. The audience is expecting it." Flashed Reiner: "There will be another scandal if there is steam. The conductor will leave the pit." No steam was used, except less turbulent steam from the back of the stage...
...when a horse named Shem, who won a race at Havre de Grace at odds of 52-to-1, was proved to be not Shem but another faster horse named Aknahton, made up to resemble him by an expert "ringer" named Paddy Barrie (TIME, March 21, 1932). When the scandal was exposed, Paddy Barrie was deported and Aknahton was ruled off the track. What had become of the original Shem no one seemed to know...