A notorious murder scandal, the Overbury case, threw up two imperfect anagrams that were aided by typically loose spelling and were recorded by Simonds D ' Ewes: ' Francis Howard ' ( for Frances Carr, Countess of Somerset, her maiden name spelled in a variant ) became Car findes a whore, with the letters E hardly counted, and the victim Thomas Overbury, as ' Thomas Overburie ', was written as O!

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Elagabalus, barely fourteen years old, became emperor, initiating a reign remembered mainly for sexual scandal and religious controversy.

" Back to Basics ", however, became synonymous with scandal, often exposed in lurid and embarrassing detail by tabloid newspapers such as The Sun.

" Kaifu became the 76th Prime Minister of Japan in August 1989, but his faction was too small to push through the reforms Kaifu sought, and the continuing repercussions of the Sagawa Express scandal caused problems.

The affair and its repercussions ( which included Clinton's impeachment ) became known as the Lewinsky scandal.

In a time when party discipline was not as strong as it is today, once Macdonald's culpability in the scandal became known he could no longer expect to retain the confidence of the House of Commons.

In 1300, Boniface VIII formalized the custom of the Roman Jubilee, which afterwards became a source of both profit and scandal to the church.

This scandal became popularly known as WA Inc.

* November 26 – Iran-Contra Affair: U. S. President Ronald Reagan announces that on December 1 former Senator John Tower, former Secretary of State Edmund Muskie, and former National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft will serve as members of the Special Review Board looking into the scandal ( they became known as the Tower Commission ).

The scandal hit epic proportions in the United States presidential election, 1872 which saw the re-election of Ulysses S. Grant and became the biggest scandal of the Gilded Age.

This affair caused a great scandal in some countries ( Bergman and Rossellini were both married to other people ); the scandal intensified when Bergman became pregnant with Roberto Ingmar Rossellini.

In the Adams campaign's hands, this became a scandal.

The party financing scandal became public in 1999, when it was discovered that the CDU had received and kept illegal donations during Kohl's leadership.

He became Chancellor of West Germany on 16 May 1974, after Brandt's resignation in the wake of an espionage scandal.

When it became public that Maxwell and Braddon had been living in an " irregular " arrangement all those years, it caused a minor scandal during which all their servants gave notice.

This became an ongoing scandal in the years to come with chairman Jorien van den Herik as the main suspect.

His strong awareness for the importance of names in the creation of a public image showed itself again during his presidential run when he threatened to sue NBC news for calling him a " television evangelist ", which later became " televangelist ", at a time when Jimmy Swaggart and Jim Bakker were objects of scandal.

The scandal, which became known as the " Petticoat affair " or the " Peggy Eaton affair ", ripped apart the cabinet and created an intolerable situation for Jackson.

Political corruption in Wilkes-Barre and Luzerne County became a major regional news story following nationwide publication of stories about the Kids for Cash scandal, a kickback scheme involving two local judges, Mark Ciavarella and Michael Conahan, charged with enriching themselves by investing in juvenile detention facilities to which they subsequently sentenced children under their judicial power.

* Guardian. co. uk-' No more Mr. Scrupulous Guy: How one of the two brains behind the Iran-Contra scandal this week became one of America's most powerful men ', John Sutherland, The Guardian ( February 18, 2002 )

While 55 % thought he " would have something worthwhile to contribute and should remain active in public life ", 68 % thought he would be remembered for his " involvement in personal scandal ", and 58 % answered " No " to the question " Do you generally think Bill Clinton is honest and trustworthy?

In particular, the successful entrapment of Graham Riddick and David Tredinnick in the " cash for questions " scandal, the contemporaneous misconduct as ministers by Neil Hamilton ( who lost a consequent libel action against The Guardian ), Tim Smith, and the convictions of former Cabinet member Jonathan Aitken and former party deputy chairman Jeffrey Archer for perjury in two separate cases leading to custodial sentences damaged the Conservatives ' public reputation.

The National Council of Teachers of English ( NCTE ) Committee on Public Doublespeak was formed in 1971, in the midst of the Watergate scandal, at a point when there was widespread skepticism about the degree of truth which characterized relationships between the public and the worlds of politics, the military, and business.

Given these connotations, dandyism can be seen as a political protestation against the rise of levelling egalitarian principles, often including nostalgic adherence to feudal or pre-industrial values, such as the ideals of " the perfect gentleman " or " the autonomous aristocrat ", though paradoxically, the dandy required an audience, as Susann Schmid observed in examining the " successfully marketed lives " of Oscar Wilde and Lord Byron, who exemplify the dandy's roles in the public sphere, both as writers and as personae providing sources of gossip and scandal.

In 1983, it was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site. With Philip threatening military action unless the pope complied with his wishes, Pope Clement finally agreed to disband the Order, citing the public scandal that had been generated by the confessions.

The current position of the Roman Catholic Church is that the medieval persecution of the Knights Templar was unjust, that nothing was inherently wrong with the Order or its Rule, and that Pope Clement was pressed into his actions by the magnitude of the public scandal and by the dominating influence of King Philip IV, who was Clement's relative.

The Harden-Eulenburg affair of 1907 – 1909 was the first public outing scandal of the twentieth century.

Perhaps as a direct result of this scandal, the Conservative party fell in the eyes of the public and was relegated to being the Official Opposition in the federal election of 1874.

The double marriage was to be done in secret, however, to avoid public scandal.

The government may also seek to have a bill introduced unofficially by a backbencher so as not to create a public scandal ; such bills may also be introduced by the loyal opposition — members of the opposition party or parties.

The Sokal Affair scandal extended from academia to the public press.

Oliver North came into the public spotlight as a result of his participation in the Iran-Contra affair, a political scandal of the late 1980s, in which he claimed partial responsibility for the sale of weapons via intermediaries to Iran, with the profits being channeled to the Contras in Nicaragua.

Yet Adorno was no less moved by other public events: protesting the publication of Heinrich Mann's novel Professor Unrat with its film title, The Blue Angel ; declaring his sympathy with those who protested the scandal of big-game hunting and penning a defense of prostitutes.

In 1872 the Weekly published a story that set off a national scandal and preoccupied the public for months.

However, in the 1990s, Milan was badly affected by Tangentopoli, a major political scandal centered on public works bribes, in which several local and national politicians and businessmen were tried for alleged corruption.

The following year, in preparation for the Salon de la Section d ' Or, Metzinger and Gleizes wrote and published Du " Cubisme " in an effort to dispel the confusion raging around the word, and as a major defence of Cubism ( which had caused a public scandal following the 1911 Salon des Indépendants and the 1912 Salon d ' Automne in Paris ).

A few years later there was a public scandal when it was discovered that Hawkins had inserted fake bones to make some ichthyosaur skeletons seem more complete, and later sold them to the government for the British Museum's collection without the appraisers knowing about the additions.

In some jurisdictions, in addition to indicting people for crimes, a grand jury may also issue reports on matters that they investigate apart from the criminal indictments that it produces, particularly when the grand jury investigation involves a public scandal.

As the number of players decreased, standards began to slip ; that they did so precipitously is confirmed by a mid-18th century Bolognese source that complained that the instrument ’ s daily appearances in the town square had become ‘ a public scandal ’ ( see Gambassi ).

Since Nixon and many senior officials involved in Watergate were lawyers, the scandal severely tarnished the public image of the legal profession.

This is generally no longer so as during the nineteenth century, the development of legal ethics tended to obviate the risks to the public, particularly after the scandal of the Swynfen will case ( 1856 – 1864 ).

He remains unaffected by the details of Eva / Daisy's death, and his own concerns appear to be retaining his social standing, avoiding public embarrassment by the leaking of a scandal, insisting that Eric accounts for and repays the stolen company money and that Sheila should reconsider her relationship with Gerald in order to maintain a promised Croft-Birling merger.