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Word: scandalize (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most sane individuals are capable of discounting such pictures of the college student, and see in these caricatures nothing more than a grotesque and rather obvious attempt at humor. This is, however, a more sinister type of publicity concerning the undergraduate which is designed to catch the eyes of scandal-loving readers by distorting any item of college news which might be made to appear sensational. The tabloid and the so-called "yellow press" find in the most insignificant events of college life a wealth of material for the exaggerated tales...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PRESS | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

Will you kindly forward to Mr. E. B. Weston, Dayton, Ohio (as you have his address), my sincere thanks for his letter to you, published in the April 30 issue of TIME, where he gives you a well merited thrashing for your bad taste in publishing uninteresting scandal about two unimportant boys just because they happen to have a prominent father,* and then call it "National Affairs"! Fi Done...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York Governors | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

Just now we are faced with the apparent necessity of voting for the Republican or Democratic nominee. Herbert Hoover may or may not be an efficient secretary of commerce; we do know, however, that he sat silent in the very cabinet that nursed the foulest national scandal in our history. That Al Smith is a regular feller and a good governor, we won't deny; but exactly what he stands for, no one has yet been able to discover...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Thomas for President | 5/14/1928 | See Source »

Houdini is dead, but Lawyer Martin W. Littleton is still alive, very. Lawyer Littleton is the man who last week extricated Harry Ford Sinclair from the oil scandal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: Old Oil | 4/30/1928 | See Source »

...that time [April, 1925]," complained Mr. Kresge, "she took a Bible* in her hand, shook it in my face and said: 'I swear to God if you don't do what I want there will be the biggest exposé-the biggest scandal you ever heard of.' " Mr. Kresge did not give her the $10,000,000 and she later proved that he was an adulterer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 30, 1928 | 4/30/1928 | See Source »

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