Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over, the national election was as dated as last week's newsreel, as dull as last week's gossip. The local election was a different story. Unseated after twelve years was Los Angeles' redbaiting Republican District Attorney Buron Fitts, who has more titillating Hollywood scandal under his bonnet than a dog has fleas. With just an occasional heckle from the film colony's left wing because of his unvarying kindness to the industry's big shots, Fitts sashayed complacently through his duties without any qualms about serious opposition for his job. After election, Hollywood awoke...
...first place, the contents of the Treasure Room in Widener are to be moved to the new edifice to "relieve in part the critical shortage of space in Widener." That Treasure Room situation has been an open scandal for years. On rainy afternoons it's so packed with Freshmen that you can't get within whistling distance of "Lady Chatterley's Lover," unexpurgated edition. Now there'll be lots of room for that sort of thing...
...robust, balding Felix Edward Hebert (pronounced E'-bare), won the Democratic nomination (tantamount to election) to Congress in the First District in a walk. Son of full-blooded Cajun parents, Nominee Hebert was city editor of the New Orleans States last summer when the paper broke the building scandal which doomed the crumbling Long machine...
...novel is only incidentally about George and Esther. It is about: 1) the publication of George's first novel, Home to Our Mountains; 2) George's filial literary relationship with his editor, Foxhall Edwards (in real life Scribner's book-wise Maxwell Perkins); 3) the scandal which George's novel caused in Libya Hill and the anguish this caused George; 4) the real-estate boom and moral deterioration of Libya Hill, and the town's collapse along with the rest of the U. S. in the 1929 crash; 5) George's four years...
...believe the womens can write. If all were known, you find the mens write those books for them." Gertrude Atherton spent the next half-century defying the mens and her mother-in-law. Literature, like the stage, was a low, unladylike profession. Her first novel was the scandal of California society in 1892. She was probably the first refined U. S. female to smoke a cigaret in public: women fainted, men boiled, editors sizzled, preachers raged...