Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Royal Scandal (20th Century-Fox) was originally a play called The Czarina, a distinctly minor example of the Budapest school of perky lubricity. Some 20 years ago Director Ernst Lubitsch turned it into Forbidden Paradise, one of the shrewdest high-comedies in screen history. Producer Lubitsch's new version, which is directed by Otto (Laura) Preminger, has its points too, most of which are named Tallulah Bankhead. But all told, they just about manage to get the show...
Catholic, democratic Colombia last week rocked with a Guy Fawkes scandal. Almost on the eve of Congressional elections, police surrounded the impressive colonial Cathedral of Bogota. Before a party of Church and Government officials who sped to the scene, they respectfully uncovered 800 bombs in the organ loft...
...editorial-page chief; moose-tall, desk-pounding Managing Editor Benjamin Harrison Reese; Cartoonist Daniel Fitzpatrick. They were, indeed, all on the team that carried through the P-D's most successful crusades: the Teapot Dome exposure, the impeachment of Federal Judge English, the Union Electric Co. slush-fund scandal, the 1936 registration frauds. But Pulitzer has backed them, ignoring the protests of his country-club friends...
Congressmen charged that the Army's handling of prisoners of war was a "national scandal"; a Senate committee had started an investigation. Reports from camps around the country had the U.S. people concerned. There were questions they wanted answered: 1) how are prisoners (particularly Nazis) acting; 2) how is the U.S. treating them; 3) what will be the results of U.S. treatment-will they simply be to return a cadre of well-fed Nazis to Germany after...
...death came to Arthur Kasherman, 43, publisher of an unsavory Minneapolis one-man tabloid, the Public Press. He died as he said he would: "Just like they got Guilford and Liggett." In 1934 gunfire from a passing automobile had brought down another Minneapolis publisher, Howard Guilford, who circulated two scandal sheets, the Saturday Press and Pink Sheet; and, a year later, Walter Liggett, publisher of the Midwest American, got his. Liggett, a former editor of Plain Talk (a magazine), and Guilford, a veteran St. Paul newspaperman, once had some legitimacy as journalists. Kasherman had none...