Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, before a tense meeting of Madrid's Academy of History, Dr. Carlos Blanco Soler denounced the whole scandal as a frivolous fraud. Since December, he said, he and two fellow scholars had been examining the Duchess' mummified body. Their verdict was death from natural causes-meningeal encephalitis, aggravated by tuberculosis, as evidenced by a tubercular lesion in the right lung and a spinal curvature. The experts reported no traces of poison...
...beat-covering he learned his home town inside out. By the time he landed on the city desk, he was an authority on the city's clergymen and its bookies, its main streets and back alleys. As a young sports writer, he uncovered the 1919 Black Sox scandal, later got a scoop on the Lindbergh kidnaping ransom note. Unlike the city editors of fiction, he is full of sweet 'reasonableness with his admiring staff of "Reutlinger's Rats...
Hook calls narrow departmentalization an "intellectual scandal." He would tailor college courses to the problem-beset individual of today. In the first two years, all students would take overall courses; in the final two years, study programs would be elected but "directed," as in the new plans of Harvard, Colgate, Princeton...
...Harvard Dramatic Club's spring production, "Winterset," is the best play to grace Brattle Hall's boards in several months. Written by Maxwell Anderson, it draws upon the notorious Sacco-Vanzetti scandal for plot material, and features unsavory characters with turned-up collars and shifty glances. An alleyway and an adjoining tenement are the settings, while a conveniently located river provides an easy means for disposing of embarrasing cadavers...
...nylon lines, the "no-butter-today" signs, the creeping national scandal of the black market were signs of the times. They were also OPA's Achilles' heel. What was the use of price control when there were no goods under the price tags? The U.S. consumer craved a thousand things, but the race for scarce items went to the swift and knowing-not always the same as the honest or the deserving-citizen...