Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...step out beside a lovely brunette mannequin in a bridal gown, and taking her arm, walk down the aisle singing I Love You Truly. Six hundred lumps filled 600 throats. While Dan Hoan, in his twangy voice, reminded Milwaukeeans that he had given them a city free of political scandal, free of crime, with a model police force and fire department, a city debt that was among the smallest in the country on a per capita basis, Carl Zeidler sang: When Irish Eyes Are Smiling...
...Milwaukee: 10,000,000 unemployed . . . unbalanced budget . . . vested interest in continued depression . . . spending $17,500 a minute . . . public scandal . . . selling agriculture down the river...
...little man in France, Cartoonist Fabreès, 45, was onetime art editor of Le Petit Journal in Paris. He has globetrotted enough to feel that humor is everywhere much the same. The kind he likes is good-natured. Caption of his Scandal in a Nudist Colony: "They have put potatoes in jackets on our table! What fools...
...Cabinet shifts prompted by the near-scandal in the Supply Ministry or a public desire for more or less war action were scheduled for consideration by the Government during the Easter recess. Indications were that they would not be nearly so drastic as those in France. If a more intensified Sitzkrieg were on the books, an inner War Cabinet under pat-standing Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax was in the cards. If blitzkrieging were in order, the Admiralty's pugnacious Winston Churchill was the man for the job. Otherwise, the Government would just rock along under the direct leadership...
...from whom Oscar apparently inherited more than his big, undulant frame. Massive-headed Lady Wilde, who claimed descent from Dante, wrote poetry under the name Speranza, hot-headed Irish patriot propaganda under the name John Fenshawe Ellis. When her hard-drinking, ugly doctor-husband got mixed up in sex scandals, she either denounced the girl or paid no attention. (Dr. Wilde, knighted nine months before his worse scandal, left a family in every farmhouse, said G. B. Shaw.) Grieved that Oscar was not a girl (he looked, said a visitor, like a little Hindoo idol), Speranza consoled herself by naming...