Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sleek, Bourbon-faced John Kendrick Bangs, who died in 1922, was a humorist, a lecturer, an editor, a critic, a librettist, a politician-and successful as all six. Lillian Russell played in his chipper Gilbertian revision of The School for Scandal. As a lecturer he earned $500 a week for discreet blends of laughter and sentiment on such subjects as Salubrities (nice celebrities) I Have Met. As an editor he diapered the old Life's first years, brightened up "The Editor's Drawer" of Harper's Monthly, ran Harper's Weekly until Colonel George Harvey crowded...
...incident reminded many people of a 1937 scandal, when a Southern chemical company mixed sulfanilamide with diethylene glycol (a material used in anti-freeze solutions), sent it to drugstores without making adequate tests. From drinking the poisonous combination, at least 73 people died...
House activities follow different lines, however, and belie the "indifference" label of a bygone day when Dunster was the "clubby House". The Dunster House forum has become a stimulating and well-known institution, the spring costume party something of a discreet scandal, and the Christmas play the vehicle for sketch writers, composers, librettists, and actors in the House...
Bill Martin became first paid president of the Stock Exchange after the Richard Whitney scandal, when Wall Street's Old Guard had given way to its Young Turks. New Dealish, optimistic, they rallied behind Newcomer Martin in a campaign to re-establish the Exchange's good name. Bachelor Martin was only 31, sobersided, athletic, a good-natured mathematics whiz who ate in the Automat, wore no hat, and dabbled at writing plays in which he admitted he could never make the heroines sound natural. Blessed by President Roosevelt and Bill Douglas, no-smoking, no-drinking Bill Martin took...
...would as soon cite Shakespeare or Gilbert and Sullivan as some legal savant" to prove his point in court; he likes to bully that specie of man named "lawyer"-to "prick their sensibilities, to bait them and make them squirm"; and, (strangest eccentricity of all), "the breath of scandal has never remotely touched...