Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...managing editor of a tabloid, Robinson plays his roles with a rough and ready simplicity that makes the audience forget the screen and follow merely the actions and dialogue of the protagonists. In "Five Star Final" he brings new highs in circulation figures to his tabloid by featuring a scandal of the past which forces the survivors to commit suicide rather than have their shame ruin a daughter's marriage...
...signed by one "Hu Flung Huey." A crusading college paper is the Daily of the University of Michigan, which with the Daily of the University of Minnesota took first place at last year's convention of the National College Press Association. On the Ann Arbor campus, many a scandal has been openly aired. Michigan's President Clarence Cook Little resigned two years ago after a long quarrel with the State legislature (TIME, Feb. 4, 1929). Last year three students were jailed for 'legging; later, five fraternity houses were raided for liquor by the police, were closed...
Because the New Hebrides are governed jointly by France and Great Britain there is scandal and backbiting about almost everything that British or French officials on the islands do. Last week the trouble was about beheading...
Historical plays usually depend on a blend of politics and escapade which is not likely to end happily in real life. In this picture, Hamilton's adversaries try to trick him into a scandal by sending an adventuress to cajole him into misbehavior. Hamilton is cajoled but he survives the scandal. He even preserves the loyalty of his wife by placing upon her clothes, which she is packing to leave him, a sprig of rosemary. A potent agent in the cinema for what is Good, True & Beautiful, Cinemactor Arliss thus confers a dubious benison on U. S. schoolchildren...
...Appleton, gone but not forgotten--what was the scandal they were having up there . . . something about carpenters and plasterers, or was it about a memorial that the real argument had been? Anyway, it seemed that the workmen had walked out one morning. It was perfectly familiar down on Plympton street, too having heaps of saud, and workmen blocking traffic. Cagey system building the pagoda in between Russell and Westmorly, then tearing down Russell, cutting a big hole in the pagoda right off, so as to connect things...