Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Automatically, every scandal or near-scandal touching His Majesty's Government is turned into matter of congratulation by the London Times-even in cases like the recent enforced resignation of Secretary of State for Colonies "Jim" Thomas whom everyone considered guilty (TIME, June i et ante). Of perhaps wholly innocent Sir Christopher Bullock the Times said last week...
...last week U. S. preparations for the XIth Olympic Games in Berlin this month had included international discourtesy, financial trouble, interminable bureaucratic bickering (TIME, Nov. 4, 1935 et seq.). Last week they were enlarged to include a lurid and unnecessary scandal which made front pages on two continents...
Protagonists of the scandal were Eleanor Holm Jarrett, 22, ablest and best-looking swimmer on the U. S. team; Playwright Charles MacArthur fresh from a Chicago courtroom where his first wife, Cinemacritic Carol Frink, finally withdrew an alienation of affections suit against his second wife Actress Helen Hayes (TIME, July 13); and Avery Brundage, chairman of the U. S. Olympic Committee...
...scandal broke when Chairman Brundage announced last week as the ship docked at Hamburg that Mrs. Jarrett, Olympic backstroke champion, had been dismissed from the team for drinking. Nosy sportswriters announced that her drinking companion at an "all-night party" had been Playwright MacArthur, without his wife. This MacArthur irritably denied from London, saying, "I was at a bar at the other end of the ship...
...scandal reverberated for three days while debates on every conceivable question in connection with it, and interviews with all the persons who were and many who were not concerned in it, dwarfed all other sports news in the U. S. and Germany...