Word: scandalized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...glamor that sets it apart from the more usual way of living. It follows that the same interest in the unfamiliar and mysterious that gives the tabloids their circulation will, when applied to another field, produce equally distorted results. The stenographer who devours the latest love-nest scandal and the matron who shudders at the drinking-orgy reports from the campuses in her magazine are sisters under the skin in sharing a universal tendency of present-day society. As long as it continues, the colleges will have to pay the penalty of public ignorance combined with curiosity...
...sixth time in a twelvemonth, Japanese were perturbed, last week, at the recurrence of an awful but now chronic scandal: personal appeal by a mere subject to the Divine Emperor...
...Adopted a resolution relieving the Government's special counsel in Oil Scandal cases from the law prohibiting U. S. employes from representing law clients against the U. S. in other suits...
...when the boy Joseph found his beloved already heavy with child, he was quite heartbroken. He said nothing, but he reflected how he might put his betrothed from him, gently and without scandal, because he loved her notwithstanding. While he pondered thus one night the Angel came to him, and said: "Fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife; for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost. And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name Jesus; for he shall save his people from their sins." So Joseph was reassured...
...trade and foreign capital, the holding of "fair elections," and provisions for a clean government, he will already have outstripped his model. By strict adherence to it, he can do no more than develop tariff battles, intervention policies, brass-knuckled good-will trips, Smith-Vare disbarments, and an oil scandal...