Scandal - Western World

Western World

In the United States, United Kingdom and Canada, scandals, particularly political ones, are often referred to by adding the suffix "-gate" to a word connected with the events, recalling the Watergate scandal, such as "Nannygate".

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Famous quotes related to western world:

    “trying to live in the terrible western world

    here where to love at all’s to be a politician, as to love a poem
    is pretentious,”
    —Frank O’Hara (1926–1966)

    “It is the place where all the aspirations of the Western World meet to form one vast master aspiration, as powerful as the suction of a steam dredge. It is the icing on the pie called Christian civilization.”
    —H.L. (Henry Lewis)