Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Reason. The gigantic machine that Huey Long had built careened from scandal to scandal, as solemn John H. Overton gave way to independent, Huey-worshipping James Noe, as Noe gave way to paunchy Dick Leche, and Leche resigned for Huey's brother Earl, Sam Jones's fortunes improved: he built a $30,000 house in Lake Charles (population now: 30,000), fathered a son and a daughter. Settling-up time had come for the Long machine. A photographer from the New Orleans' States got a picture of a State University truck being used to haul building supplies...
...During an island-wide scandal...
...like a drowning person, and down you both go." Resenting a Harvard professor's literary criticisms, Hubbard ever after blasted colleges: "A college de gree does not lessen the length of your ears; it only conceals it." When his affair with Schoolmistress Alice Moore created a national scandal, he coined and widely promoted an epigram on gossips: "When in doubt, mind your own business." Biographer Balch takes 320 pages to seek (vainly) for the clue to Elbert Hubbard's contradictory character. The shrewdest characterization is that of the Scottish comedian, Sir Harry Lauder...
...would stay and the Communists demanded from Don Tinto an assurance of loyalty to the Popular Front. Don Tinto, honest friend of the working man, gave it. Pinched between his conservative and radical supporters, he reappointed two of the three untainted Radical members of his Cabinet, replaced the three scandal-smeared members with conservative Radicals of Duran's way of thinking, considered that he had found the best way out of his dilemma. Although South America's only Popular Front Government continued to exist, it had veered decidedly to the Right, and the Confederation of Chilean Workers issued...
...rousing vote of approval to TIME for its forthright and scathing article, which places the blame for Philadelphia's misgovernment and plight (TIME, Jan. 8) squarely where it belongs. If any scandal calls for national publicity, it is the Republican plunderbund's 50 years of public-be-damned despoilment of our city, to pay for which that party now resorts to taxing the pay envelope of the lowest wage earner. The tragic irony of "honest" (or stupid) Mayor Lamberton's inaugural words, "If it [my administration] fails, you can blame the Republican Party," must be obvious...