Word: scandalize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When there is a lack of cheaper free sensation-fodder for newspaper presses, how large a sum is it good business to pay for a really choice blob of pedigreed scandal...
...truth of charges before selling their holdings, and thus reducing the value of his? Or might they, as sensible as himself, not realize that patrons of Kresge's 5 & 10-cent stores, many of them people of small tolerances and high integrity, after hearing such a rumor of scandal, might well patronize some other emporium? Might not then the shrewd shareholders sell their holdings in view of an inevitable decline, thus further depreciating the value of his own? It was not a problem for a market operator but one for a student of human nature. The shareholder, one such...
...Woman and Sin. Under this unpretentious title, John Gilbert, in the role of a cub-reporter, pursues Sin as ably impersonated by Jeanne Eagels. The climax of his pursuit occurs when he murders the source of the demimondaine's income; she perjures herself to avoid scandal; and then, because she loves the cub-reporter, confesses her paying to save his life. The able direction of one-time newspaperman Monta Bell, the able performances of Actor Gilbert and of Actress Eagels, make it possible to forgive certain weaknesses in the story. The weakness of the conclusion in which Mr. Gilbert...
...being served with subpoenas. The big issue is whether the possessor of great wealth can, by use of legal talent, detective agencies, tampering with the jury and through the absence of important witnesses in Europe, defeat the aims of justice and keep out of the penitentiary. The whole sordid scandal is like a dead mackerel in the moonlight. It stinks and stinks...
...TRIAL OF MARY DUGAN?A seething scandal story with the beautiful blonde not guilty...