Word: scandalize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Exposure. The alert Kansas City Star, the Universal Service (Hearst), and the arch-Democratic New York World were on the job. On Oct. 14. the World said that, with Senator Walsh's assistance, it was going to expose "another oil scandal." On Oct. 15. the World and Senator Walsh began telling the story of the Salt Creek lease and its renewal. On Oct. 16, the World continued the story. That afternoon. Attorney General Sargent signed and issued an opinion holding the Salt Creek lease void in the first instance and its renewal void as a result...
...middle-aged Cousin Maurice descended upon them in body and in nerves. In love with Edward's wife, he was frenzied by the young woman across the street, whom he firmly but wretchedly believed to be Edward's daughter by another woman. He convinces everybody but Edward of the scandal, and is astonished at the loyalty of Edward's unperturbed modern women...
...these customs are broadcast knowledge: the new cadet's trial of three weeks in "beast barracks", his life as an underling plebe, the bursting of the cocoon when he enters Third Class and the dignity of a yearling; the indiscriminate dubbing of plebes as Mr. Ducrot, from a scandal whispered in Keetel's French Grammar; the two months' practical camp training during July and August, accompanied by a cry of "Yea, furlough!", with results curiously like those of the Cambridge "Rein-har", though doubtless of different origin...
What constitutes religious news, according to modern journalistic standards? Usually one of two types of happenings: 1) controversial topics; or 2) scandal, both of which to some degree offend...
...dispensers digging far more deeply than necessary to find the cause and suggest the cure for student ailments. When a properly qualified person enters the field, and suggests a probable, though simple cause, he is ignored merely because he is not spectacular enough. The tabloids demand at least a scandal, and the serious-minded expect a psychological complication of the most severe sort...