Word: scandalize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Here, of course, is latitude. The case of Gaston B. Means and the Daily News (Manhattan gum-chewers' sheetlet) is in point (TIME, Mar. 24). Had Mr. Means, testifying before the Senate "Oil Scandal" probers, refused to pose for the News photographer, had he hidden his face as many do, the News editors could have performed what they "believed to be a genuine service" by captioning: ''Means cowers." As it was, he fronted the lens foursquare. They captioned: "Means scornfully facing camera...
More recently, in Manhattan, a "piebald" comedian, involved in a girl-beating scandal, smashed the camera of a Daily News photographer who had lain in wait for him at a cabaret door...
...extraordinary fact that the silk-stocking element is often the greatest offender in whispering campaigns. It is the woman with the low-necked dress and with orchids, and it is the young broker seeking to justify his political prejudices, who lend themselves to being carriers of these scandal stories...
...remember a famous occasion when the proof of a so-called divorce scandal, which afterward became the subject of a whole nation's political whispering, was first brought into my office. We had an advisory committee during that campaign and I called them together and presented the alleged copies of certain love letters. I said I believed it was unreal, untrue and unsavory, and that I would...
...What about the Panama Canal scandal...