Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week, and at the annual meeting of the British Institute of Journalists at Edinburgh their President Hugh W. Dawson read a hot attack on those British forces which he said tend constantly to "restrict the scope of free criticism and give the newspapers pause before they expose a public scandal." Including British law as now administered among these stifling forces, British Journalists' president cried: "There seems to be a tendency in courts of law, particularly on the part of English juries, to regard newspaper faults which come under their notice as calling for vindictive punishment." Conditions in Scotland...
...best portrait in To My Father is that of Dr. Chastain, whose plaint was always that he could "never understand these people," and whose lack of acceptance of Northern ways made him vulnerable to his enemies. Wrhen he encountered a frightful scandal in the hospital-the chief of staff was supplying maidens to an aged voluptuary-he insisted on exposing it, took the story to the man for whom the virgins were provided. Soon his lack of understanding of the people around him made him see enemies everywhere. He drove away patients by telling them his troubles. But when...
...finished her course with only a few interruptions, was soon head of a small hospital in the South. But amiable Southern disregard for her passionate cleanliness campaigns soon convinced her she could not manage the nurses. She became a private nurse, was mixed up in a ridiculous, small-city scandal, returned to New York, suffered poverty again before she got a fine but difficult job caring for a famed millionaire who was drinking himself to death. As soon as that job was over she was looking for work again. On the verge of a breakdown, she applied for employment with...
JUSTIN McACHON New York City Astor Case Sirs: ... I should think you would fear intervention of the postal authorities for sending obscenity through the mails, after your super-scandal-mongering of the Mary Astor-George Kaufman case [TIME, Aug. iyj. What, please, is the news value of such an article? FREDERICK W. STERN Cincinnati, Ohio Sexy but not obscene, the Astor case testimony had this news value : It was the biggest Hollywood scandal in 14 years...
...talent until later. At 20 she married a 34-year-old author of popular romances who had hoped she would help him socially, found that she was too outspoken to be a social success. Soon he published a book called Claudine at School which made both a scandal and a success, and although he admitted that he had not written all of it, witnesses who saw the manuscript afterwards testified that he had written almost none, that it was his wife's work. For six years thereafter the collaboration persisted, with Colette writing the books and her husband signing...