Worse yet, it consisted largely of scandalous stories, especially about people who had grown to become " the essence of propriety ", one of whom was her father, now Lord Worplesdon ; indeed, the book began with a tale of how Willoughby and Worplesdon were thrown out of a dance hall in 1887.

Additionally, Elihu's first spoken words are a confession of his youthful status, being much younger than the three canonical friends, including a claim to be speaking because he cannot bear to remain silent ; it has been suggested that this interesting statement may have been symbolic of a " younger " ( that is to say, later and interpolating ) writer, who has written Elihu's sermon to respond to what he views as morally and theologically scandalous statements being made within the book of Job, and creating the literary device of Elihu to provide what seemed to be a faith-based response to further refute heresy and provide a counter-argument, a need partially provided by God's ambiguous and unspecific response to Job at the end of the book.

By the autumn of 1559 several foreign suitors were vying for Elizabeth's hand ; their impatient envoys engaged in ever more scandalous talk and reported that a marriage with her favourite was not welcome in England: " There is not a man who does not cry out on him and her with indignation ... she will marry none but the favoured Robert ".

* Captain Rhett K. Butler: Scarlett's admirer and third husband, Rhett is often publicly shunned for his scandalous behavior and sometimes accepted for his charm.

In a Not the Nine O ' Clock News sketch, a bishop who has made a scandalous film called The Life of Christ is hauled over the coals by a representative of the " Church of Python ", claiming that the film is an attack on " Our Lord, John Cleese " and on the members of Python, who, in the sketch, are the objects of Britain's true religious faith.

It is nothing short of scandalous that we probably only know one out of every ten species on earth, let alone where they are or, various aspects of their biology ... — Reith Lecture, Biodiversity, 2000.

The potentially scandalous matter is resolved, until a group of prostitutes — Annie's friends — who are aware of the illegitimate child and its royal connections, attempt to blackmail Walter Sickert, Prince Eddy's friend, in order to pay off a gang of thugs who are threatening them.

Adams and Fuller ( 2006 ) state that, in misogynistic rap, a bitch is a " money-hungry, scandalous, manipulating, and demanding woman.

Set in the 80s and 90s zine heyday, Walking Man by Tim W. Brown is a comic novel written in the form of a scandalous tell-all biography that portrays the life and times of Brian Walker, publisher of the zine Walking Man, who rises from humble origins to become the most famous zinester in America.

* Colonel Mustard ( Martin Mull ) is thought, at first, to have been blackmailed for scandalous pictures, but it is later revealed that he was a war profiteer who made his money from selling stolen radio components on the black market.

Copywriter Victor Dean has died in a fall down the spiral iron office staircase, but he left a half-finished letter to the management hinting that something potentially scandalous is going on at Pym's.

While gossip columnists ’ " bread and butter " is rumor, innuendo, and allegations of scandalous behavior, there is a fine line between legally acceptable spreading of innuendo and rumor and the making of defamatory statements, which can provoke a lawsuit.

The author describes Clodia's relationship with Catullus and suggests that Clodia's scandalous lifestyle is inspired by anger at the perceived hypocrisy of her upbringing and by being abused as a child.

It is an indication of the level of Pindling's popularity in the Bahamas at the time that, despite the scandalous claims made against him in the US media, he never felt the need to resign or call an early election.

“ The performance of the sports celebrity in the field of play does appear to directly impact the perception of whether an event is scandalous or not, influenced by the extent to which an event impacted the performance of the individual on the field of play ”

A companion volume to Thorns of the blood rose, is another collection of mostly liturgical poetry, including some that was considered too " scandalous " for inclusion in the original volume.

It is believed that Julia burned any of the scandalous letters and journals that Cope had kept but many of his friends were able to give their recollections of the scandalous nature of some of Cope's unpublished routines.

It is widely believed that the deep reason behind this unrest of the youth was reaction to the scandalous life of Karamanlis ' close circle.

The State Supreme Court wrote that a scandalous publication " annoys, injures and endangers the comfort and repose of a considerable number of persons ," and so constituted a nuisance just as surely as " places where intoxicating liquor is illegally sold ," " houses of prostitution ," " dogs ," " malicious fences " " itinerant carnivals ," " lotteries ," and " noxious weeds.

Baldwin ruled that the newspapers contained nothing but scandalous and defamatory material, and permanently enjoined the defendants " from producing, editing, publishing, circulating, having in their possession, selling or giving away any publication whatsoever which is a malicious, scandalous or defamatory newspaper, as defined by law ," and also " from further conducting said nuisance under the name and title of said ' The Saturday Press or any other name or title.

From the 17th century onwards, " scandalous memoirs " by supposed libertines, serving a public taste for titillation, have been frequently published.

In Juvenal's account, he seems to have relished the scandalous self-display, applause and the disgrace he inflicted on his more sturdy opponent by repeatedly skipping away from the confrontation.

This was not helped by the biography written by her husband after her death, which portrayed a wonderful, almost saintly, woman totally at odds with the scandalous life people knew she had led.

The publicity Hall received was due to unintended consequences ; the novel was tried for obscenity in London, a spectacularly scandalous event described as " the crystallizing moment in the construction of a visible modern English lesbian subculture " by professor Laura Doan.

Divorce, where possible, was scandalous, and women who divorced were stigmatized and often ostracized by society.

In his postwar thinking, Heidegger distanced himself from Nazism, but his critical comments about Nazism seem " scandalous " to some since they tend to equate the Nazi war atrocities with other inhumane practices related to rationalisation and industrialisation, including the treatment of animals by factory farming.

These coffee-house clubs soon became hotbeds of political scandal-mongering and intriguing, and in 1675 King Charles II issued a proclamation which ran: “ His Majesty hath thought fit and necessary that coffee houses be ( for the future ) put down and suppressed ,” because “ in such houses divers false, malitious and scandalous reports are devised and spread abroad to the Defamation of his Majesty ’ s Government and to the Disturbance of Peace and Quiet of the Realm .” So unpopular was this proclamation that it was almost instantly found necessary to withdraw it, and by Anne ’ s reign the coffee-house club was a feature of England ’ s social life.

Other buildings whose demolition was seen as scandalous either already at the time of action or proved to be so in later years include The Nobel House ( subject to the very first photograph ever taken in Finland ) and the building of Old Hotel Börs ( almost directly opposite to Hotel Phoenix, Old Hotel Börs was built in jugendstil in 1909 by Frithiof Strandel ).

The famous French historian Michelet claimed that the child brought forth by the Duchess of Berry in her scandalous delivery of 1719 had been fathered by the Regent.

The scandalous revelations at the trial also undermined the sacred dignity and authority of the Vestals, the festival, the goddess, office of the pontifex maximus and, by association, Caesar and Rome itself.

A strong Puritan, Kingscot had Hale taught by a Mr. Stanton, the vicar of Wotton known as the " scandalous vicar " due to his extremist puritan views.

In the absence of any confirmation or denial of the various stories in a court of law, progressively more scandalous allegations began circulating, including rumours of homosexual rape by a high-profile royal aide, and of a palace cover-up designed to divert attention away from a covert liaison between the aide and a member of the Royal Family.

In the aftermath of the Dreyfus Affair-which exacerbated Mirbeau ’ s pessimism-he published two novels judged to be scandalous by self-styled paragons of virtue: Le Jardin des supplices ( Torture Garden ( 1899 ) and Le Journal d ' une femme de chambre ( Diary of a Chambermaid ) ( 1900 ), then Les Vingt et un Jours d ' un neurasthénique ( 1901 ).

In 1996, Garner and Jack Lemmon teamed up in My Fellow Americans, playing two former presidents who uncover scandalous activity by their successor Dan Aykroyd and are pursued by murderous NSA agents.

Some of his masses are based on extremely secular French chansons, some of which are frankly obscene ( Entre vous filles de quinze ans, " Oh you fifteen-year old girls ", by Clemens non Papa, gave him source material for his 1581 Missa entre vous filles, probably the most scandalous of the lot ).

Even the overturning of her past scandalous life was seen by Sabbatai's followers as additional confirmation of his messiahship, following the biblical story of the prophet Hosea, who had also been commanded to take a " wife of whoredom " as the first symbolic act of his calling.

The entire stock except for three copies was destroyed immediately after his death, being regarded as scandalous and blasphemous.

To many 19th-century Europeans, this was scandalous.

74, ) made it a crime to publish " false, scandalous, and malicious writing " against the government or certain officials.

Busembaum's Medulla had been burnt in Toulouse in 1757 because of its justification of regicide, deemed particularly scandalous after Damiens ' assassination attempt against Louis XV.

This game follows the scandalous rumors about Caligula.

Even the Church and hereditary clergy had become highly hierarchical, and the holders of benefices, the canons and the monks were under scandalous aspersions and mutual repulsion.

One of its practitioners, Erik Satie, collaborated with Picasso and Cocteau in a mad, scandalous ballet called Parade.

After the affair between David and Katrine became known, David Longfield's father ( Beatty's grandfather ), David Vandeleur Beatty ( 1815 – 1881 ), arranged for his son to be posted to India in the hope that the scandalous relationship might end.

Some etymologies are part of urban legends, and seem to respond to a general taste for the surprising, counterintuitive and even scandalous.

In the United States, many of these scandalous legends have had to do with racism and slavery.

Their cohabitation before marriage was regarded as scandalous in some of the places they lived, but Verdi and Giuseppina married on 29 August 1859 at Collonges-sous-Salève, near Geneva.

What was scandalous was their open admission of the relationship.

Such " scandalous " events drew public attention, but did not result in prosecution.

He associated himself with Presbyterianism, and was on the celebrated committee for the ejection of " scandalous and ignorant ministers and schoolmasters " during the Commonwealth.

The latter became as famous as the best-known fourierist communes ( Brook Farm in Massachusetts & the North American Phalanx in New Jersey ) — in fact, Modern Times became downright notorious ( for “ Free Love ”) & finally foundered under a wave of scandalous publicity.

The ancient historical writers, chiefly Suetonius and Tacitus, write from the point of view of the Roman senatorial aristocracy, and portray the Emperors in generally negative terms, whether from preference for the Roman Republic or love of a good scandalous story.

During this brief period he shocked, outraged, and amused audiences with his scandalous black comedies.

Contemporary chroniclers catalogued his various anti-religious habits at length, including his failure to take communion, his blasphemous remarks, and his witty but scandalous jokes about church doctrine, including jokes about the implausibility of the Resurrection.

When you had trade unions, ordinary people, rank and file, never been on television, never been interviewed, and they're not allowed to be heard, that's scandalous.