Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...memorable political show. When Mayor Thompson ousted him in 1927, he started a medical column in the Daily News, got on the Sanitary District's pay roll and four years later had back his old job as Health Board president. By adroit soft-pedaling Dr. Bundesen weathered the scandal surrounding Chicago's amebic dysentery epidemic during the 1933 Century of Progress...
...William was Minister to the Court of Naples, and in that garish society Emma sparkled. Though she was years younger than her elderly lover, she transferred her fidelity to him without much trouble. In Naples they could live openly together without causing scandal. When they went home to London on a visit, Sir William surprised everybody by marrying her. Though she was still not received by English society, Lady Hamilton made quite a stir among the Neapolitans, and became great gossips with Bourbon Queen Maria Carolina, Marie Antoinette's sister. Says Biographer Bowen: "The two women gossiped, lamented, condoled...
...sharp-eyed. Scholar and Libertarian Joel Elias Spingarn & friends. They did not celebrate "J. E." Spingarn's birth, his scholastic achievements or his work as president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People but the 25th anniversary of a famed old U. S. academic scandal in which "J. E." Spingarn lost...
...such snorting Oldsters in Clubland but among hard young men who count on doing as well out of the next war as their fathers did out of the last optimism was rife. Small-talk and chit-chat were of the Army's new "tank-piercing rifle" and the scandal that Czechoslovakia's "Bren" machine gun is so good that British armorers are going to have to pay huge royalties in order to lease the patents...
...midst, asking support of President Conant's stand against the Teachers' Oath Bill. Despise the dirty thing, chill it with boredom, shake it off in righteous anger, yield to it for the pure sentimental thrill, but don't sign. Harvard's President has disgraced her enough, without adding the scandal of her sons boasting when they should, in common decency, be ashamed...