Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...oldest Sunday supplement in the South has a new dress: the Atlanta Journal ("Covers Dixie like the dew") has a bright new four-color magazine section, designed to make Journal readers forget the charms of pseudo-science and warmed-over scandal...
...this week, almost everybody agreed that the beef shortage had become a scandal of indecision. But there was almost no agreement on what should be done...
...daughter. Some of her friends believe that her whole career has been an effort to vindicate her father. Anita Colby seems occasionally to feel so, and says with passionate intensity: "I have always had dignity. No matter how long I live I will always have it. I will keep scandal away. I will not go out with the town playboy...
Chaplin's version of the same night: "She invaded my bedroom. She had a gun. She circled around me. I asked her what was up and she said she was going to kill herself in my home to create a scandal. She insisted on staying and I told her she could sleep in the guest room. I gave her some night clothes and didn't see her again until the next morning." How long had it been since Chaplin and Miss Berry had ceased being lovers? Chaplin: "Oh, some time in February...
...said, was the result of his denouncing some crooked art galleries that are big newspaper advertisers. According to him, the Mexican art market abounds in skulduggery (one antique dealer last year exhibited 200 European paintings, of which only five were of value and authenticity). Try to expose this scandal, said he, and what do you get? A shellacking from the public prints. Sequeiros counterattacked from a different quarter. He reputedly joined Rivera and Orozco in consultation with a local soothsayer, who promised to unmask all their enemies for a modest 3,000 pesos ($590). At week...