Word: shamelessness
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...serve Publisher Hearst in either of the Washington suits.) Also last week Bishop Cannon sued Publisher Julius David Stern's Philadelphia Record but stated neither grounds nor damages. Also pending is a $500,000 libel suit against Congressman George Holden Tinkham of Massachusetts, who called the Bishop a "shameless violator of the Federal corrupt practices...
Lorenzaccio's Libretto proved to have greater distinction than its music. The central character is a henchman in the court of the Medici. He procures young girls for his cousin the duke, performs so many shameless services that he becomes corrupt himself, forgets his vow to free Florence from its tyrant. His mother finally stirs him with a story of having seen the ghost of his innocent youth. The tempo increases. Lorenzaccio's young aunt is sacrificed to the duke's lust. An old friend is victimized. But the greatest damage has been done to Lorenzaccio...
...froufrou, the impression of the evening's entertainment is that both pieces are very slight and very stagy. But they are also very pleasant. The curtain-raiser, The Violet, is concerned with the trials of a theatrical casting director who becomes weary of the blandishments and caresses which shameless young women, seeking employment, lavish upon him. Changing places with his composer, he is astonished to find that Ilona Stobri (Ruth Gordon) is attracted to him rather than to the one whom she believes is the director. She gets the job. To Ruth Gordon (Serena Blandish, Saturday's Children...
...President is setting up a straw man merely for the purpose of knocking him down. His own secretary could have warned him against such a cheap exhibition of partisan politics. I say deliberately that nothing more shameless has emanated from the White House in my 30 years' service in Congress. ... I can scarcely trust myself temperately to characterize an astonishing performance of this kind by the President...
...Shrewd as well as ruthless, Chang Tsung-chang at once ran up the five-barred flag which used to stand for the Chinese Republic ten years ago, but has stood for every kind of despotism since. One or two gullible correspondents, new at the Chinese game, soon described this shameless old flag-waver as the "Democratic Marshal...