Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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SOME AMERICAN PEOPLE - Erskine Caldwell-McBride ($2). A collection of reports on conditions throughout the U. S.. including the grim account of starvation in Georgia that created a State scandal, led to an independent investigation that confirmed Author Caldwell's more extreme charges (TIME, March...
...reporting if she has sense. . . . Men always are good to women." One of the first things she did was to pretend to faint on the street. Taken to a hospital in a hearse, she investigated the emergency ward from the inside, wrote an expose which caused a thumping scandal, cost most of the hospital staff their jobs, resulted in ambulance service...
...stumbled home to disgrace his wife. Arrangements were under way for a divorce when he hunted for Gloria, found her at last on a dingy Boston boat, in time to quarrel with her again and witness the accident that ended her intense life. Then he sneaked away to avoid scandal...
...Negro slavery and the formation of experimental Utopian communities of the character of Brook Farm. Strangest and strongest of these colonies was the Oneida Community at Oneida, N. Y., stronghold of "communism of love" and of experiments in birth control, prosperous manufacturer of steel traps and silverware, centre of scandal for more than 30 years. Founded in 1847 with a handful of converts and a few hun-dred dollars capital, the Community in 1880 owned property valued at more than $500,000, divided among 225 members, including a number of scientifically-bred children. The original members had endured systematic...
Although Noyes lived chastely, submitting himself successfully to the fiery temptations of Manhattan's Five Points ("Hell has done its worst," he said as he escaped the painted ladies) his course was marked with scandals. Greatest scandal did not break until after his marriage. The household of one of his followers had been broken up through a wife's infidelity, and Noyes had reconciled all parties, who went to live with him in Putney, Vt. There the unconventional religious views of the Perfectionists aroused hostility, but no knowledge of their sexual conduct reached the townspeople. With great gravity...