Word: scandalize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...looking for tendencies of thought and modern ideals may see in much of modern biography the fruit of the democratic idea, that all men are created squal. Since all men are not equally good, they must be equally bad. The more practically minded may point out merely that historical scandal-mongering is a profitable business, without the dangers attendant upon libelling the living...
...opinion has pushed it, and not an inch further. The White House and State Department have, under pressure, made vague concessions to public opinion by agreeing to arbitrate in Nicaragua and Mexico. Very little that resembles a definite action has been taken, Perhaps the idea is that the baseball scandal or the idea is that the baseball scandal or a divorce case may draw attention from the Central American situation, and leave the government free to act us it sees fit. But in the meantime resentment is brewing in nearly every country to the south of us, even...
...higher than ever, Kenesaw Mountain Landis sat down at his desk in Chicago and stared solemnly and petulantly at the 50 reporters who rose to say good morning to him. Without a word he handed to each a typewritten statement of 2,000 words-his decision in the baseball scandal of having given or taken bribes in 1917. The statement declared the players innocent. The "gift" from the White Sox to Boston in 1917 was an impropriety. It was not, said the statement, a crime. The Judge himself said nothing. With a twinkle in his eye he took his coat...
...rank and file of the subway strap-hangers, among those outside the collegiate circle, whose only possible interest in the Harvard-Princeton football break is the amount of dirt to be squeezed out of it. Already the athletic relations between the two universities have been made into a public scandal. They received the same treatment as the recent baseball crisis. They received the same attention from the street corner loafer, the same insane comments from people who never went to Harvard or Princeton, or any other college, whose interest in them, as it is in Charlie Chaplin, or Ban Johnson...
Complications are plentiful in the romance when Dolores Casanova, vamp of Spain, comes on the stage, leading Rockwell's valet, Jimmy Walker, a merry tango. L. W. Grossman 1G.B, who wrote the music for last year's show and portrayed Nooky in the "Fool-for Scandal,", furnishes a large share of the comedy as Jimmie Walker. Spanish girls still have a thing or two to learn from C. R. Frazier '27, in the part of Dolores Casanova...