Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...longer a mere check forger, but with his name tied to wartime Washington scandal, a clandestine Alabama marriage, Boston heiresses, and Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, Alfred B. Parkhurst languished in the East Cambridge jail last night pending formal government charges and his raising of $25,000 bail...
True Top? To U.S. consumers generally the big news in the butter scandal was that retail prices of butter, and many another staple, were at last going down. Prices of canned citrus fruits fell one-third in some cities. In Florida and Texas, prices of citrus fruits were down 50% to 60% from last year, as a bumper crop was harvested. The glut was so great, and prices so low, that packers and growers slapped a temporary embargo .on shipments, trying to keep prices up in northern markets. Eggs were down generally 3? a dozen; meat and lard dropped...
...baseball, the scandal was minor. In Louisiana, a half dozen players of the Evangeline (Class D) League were charged with betting against their teams...
...football, the attempted bribery of two of the Giants' players (TIME, Dec. 23) was a different matter. The newspapers played it as the worst scandal since the "Black" Sox threw the 1919 World Series. Alvin Paris, the tinhorn gambler who tried to fix last fortnight's pro football championship game, was still in jail. Who was behind him? The papers hinted darkly of a big-time Jersey gambling ring, which was not above fixing prize fights and college basketball games...
Carol Landis exploits her husky voice and graceful curves successfully as a tawdry silhouette dancer and Signe Hasso is excellent as the pretty young thing a reformed George Sanders eventually marries. Compared to the supposed feature, "A Scandal in Paris" is an entertaining picture, spoiled only by the mouldy taste "If I'm Lucky" leaves in the mouths of the audience...