Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...public service officials who administer penal and correctional institutions, departments of probation, parole boards and other public and private agencies dealing with delinquency and criminality. The significance of this lies in the aim to help the public agencies which every one thinks of in this connection. The recent scandal in the New York police force and the ill-success of the present officials in preventing crime are sufficient comment on the need of a change...
...Miss Ashmun than her meetings with Walter Scott; Dr. Darwin, the great Darwin's grandfather; Romney, who painted her portrait twice; Carey, the translator of Dante; and the poet Southey. Other men of similar note pass across the background of "The Singing Swan." Boswell, to whom she gave much scandal about the great doctor, Garrick, Reynolds, Coleridge, and Adam Smith...
...have been mastered by Hollywood producers so recently. The Good Bad Girl (Columbia). The penalties of an antisocial career are here set forth in the case of a well-intentioned country girl (Mae Clarke) who becomes friendly with a gangster, later marries an honest youth of impeccable connections. The scandal of her past associations forces her back into disreputable surroundings but she is last seen reunited with her husband. Marie Prevost, now grown from a svelte ingenue into a buxom comedienne, gives a gay impersonation of a gun-moll's friend, but the picture should help kill the underworld...
...radio, until he came to be known as one of Memphis' most popular churchmen. A liberal, a patrician, he distinguished himself-without seeking notoriety-in such matters as an attack last month on Tennessee's famed anti-evolution laws. He considered his home life, untouched by scandal, an exemplary one. Perhaps he wanted a son-his one baby boy had died at birth, and a daughter was suddenly taken from him last month -but he still had two little girls, Eugenia and Peggy. And these might compensate for a misfortune which had come upon his wife: a three...
There should have been 1,691. But last minute scandal kept five pictures off Burlington House's chaste walls. Year ago one Mark Symons painted what the penny press described as the Picture of the Year. Not particularly well painted, harsh in color, it was a crucifixion with a Flanders battlefield as a background. There were modern British soldiers, gas masks, hand grenades and other impedimenta and it bore the imposing title "Were You There When They Crucified My Lord?'' It brought him much publicity and many commissions. Feeling that there was a demand for this sort of thing, Artist...