Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with sudden unrestraint. Manuela, after a play in which she has starred, drinks several glasses of the school punch, staggers to the platform and announces that she loves a particular teacher, that the Fraulein (Dorothea Wieck) has given her a chemise. Of this the principal makes such a scandal that the child goes to kill herself by jumping from the top of the staircase well. The other children drag her back in time. The final scene, in which the overwrought children gather around the young Fraulein, is made the symbol of the harsh old principal's spiritual defeat, the prediction...
...SCANDAL MONGER ? Emile Gauvreau?Macaulay...
...rules and laws of church and state. 2) To legalize certain sex education, so necessary for successful marriage, but which is now also quite generally forbidden by law. 3) To abolish the present divorce courts with all of their illegality, hypocrisy and bootlegging that is becoming a scandal and disgrace. And in place of the present divorce courts to establish an Institute of Human Relations composed of a commission of three experts, two from the medical or scientific professions and only one from the legal profession to give it legality. Discordant couples would come here instead of lawyers' offices...
...Newton Diehl Baker, for the Meyer job. For one reason or another none of them was "available." Then dropping a good way down the Democratic list, the President settled on 68-year-old Atlee Pomerene, Ohio lawyer, onetime (1911-23) Senator and co-prosecutor of the Government's oil scandal cases. Mr. Pomerene was sworn in as R. F. C. chairman...
Hollywood Speaks (Columbia), another exercise in self scrutiny by the film industry, begins like What Price Hollywood with an opening at Grauman's Chinese Theatre and ends with suicide and scandal. Pat O'Brien is a critic who needs an aspirin and clutches at the bottle in the hand of an extra girl (Genevieve Tobin). The bottle holds poison. He builds a new life for her, makes her a star while she blandishes a famed director. The director's wife commits suicide, blaming Genevieve Tobin in a note which a blackmailer finds. In retrieving the note...