Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This was not a criminal to be dealt with. This was not a case for the house of correction. Here was an upright and respected student who was the victim of an unfortunate accident, written up in Boston's scandal mongering, anti-Harvard, publicity minded papers and dealt with in a most twisted and warped fashion. To a casual reader, it would appear that here was a modern Dillinger and not an unfortunate victim of circumstances...
...National Guard during the French Revolution, was jailed as an aristocrat at 19. In the turbulent years that followed, when military careers fell to young men. he became Napoleon's aide-de-camp, was twice wounded, had seen 15 years of service at the age of 29. Two scandals darkened his life. He was unjustly suspected of responsibility for the murder of the Duke of Enghien, "one of the few instances of individual terrorism that Napoleon appears to have allowed himself." In this killing Napoleon behaved like a modern gangster taking a rival for a ride; arranged the affair...
Used as Paris newsmen are to such courtroom petulance, they seriously reported that "a real disturbance" seemed imminent before the 50 maitres were accommodated to their satisfaction in Justice's Palace. Twenty months ago two French Cabinets were unseated in succession by the Stavisky Scandal; the riots in the Place de la Concorde on Feb. 6, 1934 were the bloodiest in 63 years; and the present trial of Stavisky accomplices bristles with political dynamite. Since most Frenchmen believe that Swindler Stavisky did not commit suicide but was shot by agents of the State detective force to shield...
Freakish as that play seemed, it nevertheless was not U. S. Football's curiosity-of-the-week. That distinction went to a mystification at the University of California at Los Angeles which was taking on the proportions of a national sports scandal...
Only yesterday the scandal began; only yesterday Senor Donna Inez sent the rapscallion away. But why be angry with the world? It is bound to turn on its axis; and the Senoritas and the Maters and the Paters and all humanity along with it. One must live, die, make love, pay taxes. Why fret about them if the hour be sweet. It is all amusing; dangerous; melancholy; inevitable. Philosopher's food; the poet's playground; the lover's misery. And so away: the soul of living is its license. Thus mused Donny Juan; and some hundred cantos bear witness...