Word: scandalize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hogge, Liberal: "It's a scandal...
...striking scene wherein the elders display an ostrich morality, convinced that a scandal is buried if only a marriage takes place. But it rears its ugly head in another striking scene, when a fanatic Negro zealot arouses the primitive instincts of the phlegmatic Dutchmen by the simple process of beating a drum and thumping their theological frenzy. Louis Wolheim ("Hairy Ape") as the Negro handled that drum up to the climacteric hysteria like a Sousa of the soul. Ann Davis fills poignantly the repressed role of the girl, and Frank McGlynn ("Abraham Lincoln") and Kenneth MacKenna are two other stalwarts...
...There has been corruption before in American politics," Mr. Pell said, in speaking of the Teapot Dome Scandal, "but never has it been taken so complacently. President Coolidge has yet to express one word of indignation at those who betrayed his confidence and that of his predecessor. It is just that, that makes Calvin Coolidge impossible as a president, in the eyes of the thinking public. He talks little, and does nothing...
...licenses through the eclectic board, and of these 176, 166 were graduates of the Kansas City College of Medicine and Surgery. This was one of the two medical schools shown to have been involved in the diploma-mill (ring, exposed first by the St. Louis Star. The publicity and scandal aroused by this expose presumably had no serious influence on the eclectic board in Arkansas. This board licensed 36 graduates of low grade schools during 1923. Such states as reciprocate in the matter of licensure with Arkansas must now be on their guard...
Fewer Quacks. The recent scandal in medical licensure will, no doubt, diminish still further the number of physicians coming from low grade medical schools. Out of 35,497 physicians during the last six years, only 1,903 came from medical schools rated as low grade by the American Medical Association...