Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...knight. A few months later he was Attorney General (Sir John Simon was his subordinate). In 1913 he became Lord Chief Justice, the next year a baron. Between those years he had been a lieutenant of David Lloyd George, helped to engineer the House of Lords reform, survived the scandal that threatened to end his career. As Attorney General he approved a contract whereby British Marconi Co. was permitted to construct a chain of wireless stations throughout the Empire. Before the contract was drawn he had bought 10,000 shares in American Marconi Co., of which his brother was agent...
...fable of true love in Manhattan between a hat check girl (Sally Eilers) and a millionaire's son (Ben Lyon). Finding this theme thin as well as improbable, it pads itself out with winter sports scenes, night club shows, the slimy trail of a blackmailing scandal-sheet editor, underworld ramifications, subway interludes. The unreality of the proceedings is heightened by the two leading players' conflicting ideas of what the picture is about. Ben Lyon tries ably to play it as light comedy. Sally Eilers, stiff and strained, registering emotion by twisting her fingers and looking wan, tries...
...request to go to a playboy's party. Irritably chaste, she accepts the use of an empty apartment where the returning owner (Ben Lyon) finds her in bed. True love is instantaneous. Menaces appear in the persons of the hat-check overlord who "frames" her, and the scandal sheet editor who is part of her past. They operate to defer the marriage until the editor is found dead and Ben Lyon is arrested for the murder. When this mistake has been corrected and all the tentacles of the octopus city have finally been disengaged, the happy pair, trying...
Blacknier, fugitive from the Teapot Dome oil scandal...
South carolina's big team went north for the first time, upset Villanova, 7 to 6. First scandal of the year concerned Tulane's captain, Nollie (''Papa Nollie") Felts. Someone charged that he had played professional baseball before he went to college. While the matter was being investigated, Tulane, without Felts, drubbed the Texas Aggies. 26 to 14. Pop Warner's new Stanford team used a bewildering collection of reverses, double-reverses, spinners, laterals and forwards to muddle Oregon State in one of the longest games on Pacific Coast Conference record. 27 to o. It was too early to guess...