Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Marquis became acclimated quickly. When Cinemactress Swanson lost interest in him, he gave proof of a shrewd business head by securing Constance Bennett for RKO Pathé, where he was hired to supervise and direct talkies made for exportation to France. An alliance too open to be a scandal had existed between the Marquis and Constance before and since. On embarking for Europe last week, Cinemactress Bennett said there were no plans for a marriage, implied that there might be after Cinemactress Swanson gets her divorce, due Nov. 6. Asked whether he would spend part of his vacation with Constance...
...listed on the big-city stock exchanges. The amendment permits the banking commission to prohibit sales of even such listed stocks. The Cities Service lawyers spent most of their energy arguing, not against the law, but against Commissioner Newcomer's motives. They said he had been influenced by "scandal mongers and gossips," had acted arbitrarily merely to help Governor Woodring in his fight for lower gas rates in Kansas, had inquired of the Investment Bankers Association for information on Cities Service* after ordering its suspension, and had written to the Chicago Stock Exchange threatening to bar from Kansas...
...Scandal à la Hals...
...Gauvreau of the Mirror.To him it is the difference between outmoded pornography and the beginning of a new "Tabloidia" in which he implicitly believes. He was the porno-Graphic's first managing editor. He stuck with it for five years until, sick of dishing up nothing but sex, scandal, crime, faked news & faked pictures to an illiterate circulation, he quit and went to the Mirror (TIME. July 22, 1929). There he could print at least some legitimate news along with sex and crime. There he was permitted to write a .column called "Now and Then," on the pattern...
...Confessions of a Coed, it will be because Sylvia Sidney almost manages to make real emotions out of fake situations. One of the many young actresses who have effected a successful transfer from the stage to talkies, she replaced Clara Bow in City Streets when the Daisy de Boe scandal and Cinemactress Bow's indispositions made the substitution necessary. She is now being groomed, though inefficiently, to be a star...