Word: venalities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Friends Prince Peter of Greece, ex-Premier Paul Reynaud, Mistinguett, Marlene Dietrich, Jean Cocteau, Cinema Producers Marcel Pagnol and René Clair, dozens of writers, Cabinet Ministers, deputies and generals. They could toast Lazareff as one of the few journalists who had lived through, without being stained by, the venal days of France's prewar press. They also could toast a proved proposition : that journalistic honesty can pay off in France...
Here in Los Angeles ... we have our choice of four newspapers. Two of these are venal and unreliable typical "chain reactionaries" which do not hesitate to suppress news contrary to their avowed policies. The third has been well described as a stand-patter. It is honest enough in its way, but its features and editorials more often than not retain a juvenile small-time flavor as if unable to forget the nostalgic picture of Los Angeles in a more placid past. Finally there is a tabloid which, despite a reasonably intelligent and liberal editorial policy, runs repeatedly to the blatant...
...musical system is as monopolistic as anything we have ever had, and no less venal. It discourages all sincerity and genuine accomplishment, and encourages pretention, charlatanry, and vulgarity...
...publisher-boss (Leon Ames). The lady of the title never appears in the film because she is dead at the bottom of a lake. Before Montgomery finally catches up with the killer-and with love-he has bulled his way through brass knuckles, a moldy jail, various sinister strangers, venal policemen, five homicides...
Treasury agents, who had anxiously awaited their first opportunity to pounce on some venal vacationist, pounced on Lady Stanley for secretly spending hundreds of pounds beyond the legal limit. In London's Bow Street police court, Lady Stanley (who likes her friends to call her "Portia") pleaded guilty. Beside her, booked on the same charge, stood fiftyish Anton Bon, who likes his friends to call him "Major." Manager of London's swank Dorchester Hotel Ltd., he has made his establishment the Royal Family's favorite spot for social appearances. "Major" Bon also pleaded guilty. For Portia...