Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Belgians. In the London tabloid Daily Sketch, which is more given to scandal than to politics, appeared a political piece. It said that Belgium, in exchange for certain guarantees, might become a member of the Commonwealth. The story was a slightly garbled version of a speech by Antoine Delfosse, Belgian Minister of Information. Other Belgian officials, who knew they could make no such bargain until their people were free to approve, or disapprove, were horrified...
...they do upset his delicious secretary (Olivia de Havilland). She, in turn, obscurely upsets her boss, who, with no time for love, undertakes a secret study of books like How To Be Happily Married. Miss de Havilland's boyfriend (Jess Barker), a smooth young attorney in search of scandal, is also interested in her boss. Investigated at long last by the Senate, Planeman Tufts is saved only by Miss de Havilland's impetuous glorification, before the Committee, of Men Who Get Things Done. Amidst the dramatic moments is a lighter passage which depicts the romantic leads running hogwild...
...shocked by the first scandal in the U.S. Army High Command in World War II. It centered on a hero of Casablanca, El Guettar and Sicily: gaudy, profane Lieut. General George Smith Patton Jr., Commander of the U.S. Seventh Army...
Said he "nonpolitically": 1) the G.O.P. was wholly to blame for the recent scandal-scented election of scandal-scarred Supreme Court Justice Thomas A. Aurelio (TIME, Nov. 15); 2) the recent G.O.P. state victories really meant nothing...
...Express is no scandal sheet, but Arthur Christiansen's brand of journalism has a distinctly yellow hue. There is nothing in the U.S. quite comparable to it. In appearance and content it is more like the Hearst papers than anything else-copiously illustrated, splashy with black headlines, trickily laid...