Scandalously

Who wooed a king with a headdress which ‘scandalously’ exposed her hairline?

In a scathing open letter earlier this month, disgruntled students lambasted Mzuzu University, accusing it of “institutional mediocrity and managerial incompetence” over the scandalously delayed graduation.

Scandalously denied an All Star in 2003 when he finished joint second top score in Ireland.

The miniskirt sat high on her waist, accentuating her hourglass physique, and came just a few inches down her thighs with a scandalously short hem.

This story provokes me in turn to pay honour to a remarkable British woman, scandalously under- recognised in this country, who was one of the thousands of London victims of the 'doodlebugs'.

Carrie inherited her drug addiction and bipolar disorder from her father, 1960s crooner Eddie Fisher (pictured together in 1983) who scandalously abandoned the family for Elizabeth Taylor and only returned to see his daughter and hit on her.

Even more scandalously, it was said that Calderon was killed while clinging desperately to the robes of Pope Alexander VI — who just happened to be Cesare and Lucrezia’s father.

It is inconceivable to hear that a country that could indulge its political office holders by paying them scandalously high salaries and allowances cannot afford to lift up its workers from the conundrum of poverty by paying them living wages.

Led by the former Minister of State for Defence, Senator Defence Musiliu Obanikoro they scandalously but successfully subverted the will of Ekiti people and Fayose defeated the incumbent Fayemi to emerge as governor.

The subsequent relationship between Hadrian and Sabina was exceptionally and scandalously poor, even for a marriage of convenience.

What she therefore displayed more scandalously, she was now offering to God in a more praiseworthy manner.