Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Passed a bill by North Dakota's Nye authorizing the U. S. to settle its naval oil scandal claims against Pan-American Petroleum and Richfield Oil of California...
...behavior of the Oxford Union last week was more than a campus scandal. To the whole rugged, wealthy British upper middle class (not to mention the peerage & landed gentry) it was a national calamity. They had known that the Oxford Union, that famed debating society which is the traditional school for British statesmen, has been increasingly attended by studious greasy grinds, apt to be Laborites. But what indeed was the Empire coming to when the Union sank so low last week as to adopt by a vote of 275-to-153 this proposition...
...French Dauphin, lethargic Louis XVI ("whose greatest achievement was to go to bed at eleven o'clock every night") she soon found her married life was to have no pretense of love, not even (until Louis finally consented to an operation) a chance of children. Though scandal surrounded her, Biographer Anthony thinks it was baseless rumor. Marie did have expensive tastes, however, and loved cards. The evening before her 21st birthday she played faro continuously for 36 hours. One lover (Biographer Anthony thinks) Marie Antoinette did have: discreet, able Count Axel Fersen, a Swede who served...
...because of any journalistic ambition, but because they sought an instrument for power, Bonfils & Tammen bought the doddering Post for $12,500, imported Hearstlings, doctors of yellow journalism, to rake the town for scandal, dish it up in dripping, juicy gobs. As it had for Hearst, the formula worked richly for Gambler Bonfils & Bartender Tammen...
...Some of Bonfils' early land deals were crooked. Big winners in his lottery were confederates. He blackmailed Denver merchants into buying his Post coal. He was horsewhipped into a hospital by a Denver husband. He took $250,000 hush-money from Harry F. Sinclair in the Teapot Dome scandal. And the elaborate house in which "Bon" Bonfils died was the object of particularly horrid whispers-that Bonfils got it extremely cheap from a man who feared publicity...