Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seventh count summarized the other six, declared that "the reasonable and probable consequence" of Judge Ritter's actions was to "bring his court into scandal and disrepute ... to the prejudice of said court and public confidence in the administration of justice therein, and to the prejudice of public respect for and confidence in the Federal judiciary. . . . Wherefore the said Judge Halsted L. Ritter was and is guilty of misbehavior, and was and is guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors in office...
...pose for his portrait in return for a series of fairy stories. Before the portrait was finished, methodical Painter Millais found it necessary to have an iridescent glass sphere especially blown so that he could copy the tints of a soap bubble. The canvas created a mild artistic scandal when it was sold to Lever Bros. Ltd. for Pear's soap advertising. As such it soon became Sir John Millais' best known work...
Press censorship was clamped down on all references to the scandal. Several footless efforts were made to prop up the sagging company. Last week came the end when Phönix-Wien disbanded, three directors were arrested, and from its ashes rose a new insurance company called Austrian Insurance Co. Ltd., capitalized at only $2,000,000. Foreign Phönix policyholders will have to stand their loss. The new company hopes to save Austrian policies with a 5% premium rise, a special tax on other Austrian insurance companies...
...every railroad stop, another in Montreal who besieges her with presents and long-distance telephone calls. Cinemadirector Rouben Mamoulian, a fellow Caucasian, entertained her royally each night the company spent in Los Angeles. Aboard train Dancer Lichine keeps a daily log for the company, mourns when there is no scandal, no petty jealousy to record. In their few hours of leisure the dancers rush for a cinema, a 5 & 10? store, a cut-rate druggist to buy their cosmetics. During rehearsals they subsist on milk, eat ravenously when a performance is over. Aboard train they will buy anything from...
...enough proxies for a quorum, let alone attend in person. The few stockholders who do attend can do little except talk, since the majority of the shares are generally voted, not by disinterested stockholder representatives, but by a management primarily interested in staying in office. Almost nothing short of scandal ever bestirs the absentee owners to a concerted effort to exercise any real control over their company's affairs. It is much easier for a dissatisfied shareholder to sell his stock and get out. Last week the season for these well-rehearsed assemblies was in full swing...