Word: scandalize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York. In Manhattan, Mrs. Ruth Sears Baker Pratt, society widow, defeated Phelps Phelps, "Tammany Republican" for a G. O. P. nomination for Congress. In Queens, queer, sprawling borough, of New York City, lately notorious for a sewer-pipe scandal, the political heir of the scandalized Democratic administration, Bernard M. Patten, was renominated for Borough President, beating a "clean government" candidate...
...Commissioner under President Wilson, reminded people that the executive order upon which Departmental political regulations are based was issued by President Cleveland a generation ago and that it specifies that "no Presidential appointee or other unclassified employee . . . will be permitted ... to display such obtrusive partisanship as to cause public scandal ... to use his position to interfere with an election or to affect the result thereof...
...Would Mr. Hoover have the American people believe that in the light of the [oil scandal] disclosures I mentioned there was any rare courage, any leadership or any constructive action...
Cleveland readers were amazed. Whispers of the stamped envelope scandal were broadcast. The Plain Dealer's story was guarded, vague. What were the facts? Envelopemen assembled them, thus...
...Only one scandal disturbed the Royal homecoming. Crown Princess Astrid of the Belgians, Their Majesties' Swedish daughter-in-law, was flayed last week, by a fanatically Roman Catholic news organ, Le Vingtieme Siècle. Wrote its Priest-Editor: "A recent photograph of Her Royal Highness shows her seated, with the skirt somewhat above the knees. The radiant beauty of the Princess aroused sufficient admiration in itself without the addition of such a piece of trivial daring. The example coming from the throne, or even the steps of the throne, is the most substantial bar that can be opposed...