Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Awkward, Embarrassing." The "London Plot," as the Evening Standard called it, was denounced by many as shady chicanery. Said a London scrubwoman: "I'd never 'ave thought it of 'em." Said Liberal County Councilor Harris: "A scandal. . . deliberately defeating the will of London...
Cuba was not alone in the scandal. In Washington, Narcotics Commissioner Harry J. Anslinger reported that the U.S. was swamped with the biggest influx of cocaine in 20 years. In New York, police in the past six months have seized almost 400 ounces of the stuff, more than in the previous four years. Where it came from was no big problem; the source, said Anslinger, was unquestionably Peru...
After working hours, Jimmy was off to parties with old Broadway friends. Soon he had a new one: Actress Betty Compton. Their relationship became a Page One scandal. "If you have to be a sneak to get votes," snapped Jimmy, "then count me out right now." All went as gaily as a magic-carpet ride-until the Crash. In 1931, the New York state legis- lature voted an investigation of charges of corruption in the Walker administration. "A tempest in a pot," said Jimmy...
...failure ... I accepted the post with no thought of misappropriation. The first audit was sketchy . . . Subsequent audits found me in varying degrees of embarrassment, but since I was never pinned down, I became . . . amazingly nonchalant about the whole matter, believing, alas, the money would be easily replaced without public scandal or personal discredit...
...Leigh, he is starring in a repertory of three plays-two of them Olivier-produced- which are sold out through March. In any one week, ticket holders can see Sir Laurence and his lady in Richard III (produced by John Burrell, who has also been sacked), The School for Scandal, and a modern-dress Antigone, in which Olivier plays a one-man Greek chorus in a dinner jacket...