Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years of the big names-the years of Dempsey, Tilden and Bobby Jones-Babe Ruth was the biggest draw of them all. With his big bat, he put baseball back on its feet and back in the hearts of the fans after the 1919 "Black Sox" scandal...
...Angeles, Lauritz Melchior announced with a Heldentenor's roar that he would put on opera if the Met wouldn't. Said he: "It's a scandal, a disaster. The eyes of the world are turned to America and the greatest country in the world cannot even have an opera house! It looks as if we're only interested in jazz and crooning and all the semi-things...
...Florida sun. Disguises were an old dodge to Reporter Sprigle, who won a Pulitzer Prize (1937) for uncovering Supreme Court Justice Hugo L. Black's past as a Ku Klux Klan member. Three years ago, elaborately roughed up as a black marketeer, he had exposed a meat-rationing scandal in Pittsburgh (TIME, April...
...choice items in Editor Linscott's basket is an account of how mid-19th Century Boston was rocked by scandal: the only known instance in which a Harvard professor committed murder. A Harvard janitor, one Littlefield, achieved immortality of a sort by nabbing the murderer, who had buried his victim in a vault under his chemistry laboratory. As he dug into the wall of the vault, related Littlefield, "the first thing I saw was the pelvis of a man and two parts of a leg." With appropriate Harvard restraint, the janitor added: "I knew this was no place...
Churchmen of all faiths were beginning to suspect that the movement toward a united Protestantism might paradoxically increase the scandal of Christian disunity by making the cleavage between Protestant and Catholic sharper than ever. But others, like Italian Waldensian Leader Jean Gonnet, felt that the Vatican would be just as happy about the Protestant movement toward unity as the most ecumenically minded Protestant. Said Professor Gonnet: "Rome is well pleased to see other Christians marching towards unity, because in her opinion this will inevitably lead to a return to the fold under one sole shepherd-the Pope...