Word: scandalized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wrangled about the Oil Scandal (see CORRUPTION...
...Funds. Treasurer William V. Hodges of the Republican National Committee denied a report that he would retire as a result of the Oil Scandal inquiry (see p. 12). He stated that G. 0. P. funds in 1928 would be plentiful for "a proper campaign"; that the 90,000 contributors of 1924 would this year be swelled...
Higher and higher has led the trail of corruption originating in the Senatorial investigation into the Teapot Dome scandal. As Professor Hart pointed out in his interview in yesterday's Crimson, the collaboration of prominent men was necessary to the scheme, and the searchers finally reached the summit when Senator Nye, chairman of the committee, announced that the estate of the late Warren G. Harding would be investigated for traces of the missing Continental Oil Company bonds which were part of Sinclair's contribution to the campaign fund. The fact that a president of the United States should be suspected...
Senator Walsh has a brain, too; a patient, unbending, inexorable instrument in which he takes a chill delight when he brings it to bear on an Oil Scandal or a Power Probe. Unbending, unemotional, he has been called unique: "an Irishman without a sense of humor." Not until the past few years has he shown ambition nor, until very recently, even sufficient self-consciousness to trim up his Montaneering mustache of iron grey...
...annoyed them when Sculptor Caoudal spread a true scandal about Fanny, saying that she was the nakedest and not the least contaminated of all the artists' models in Paris; but they were delighted when Fanny leaped upon this villain and clawed the collar off his neck. At the end, when Fanny slipped off to the country with her pure but honest well-beloved, interest waned. Bostonians had come to see Mary Garden do great and voluptuous acts of rage and excitement; satisfied in this desire, they decided that she had tilted a cracked mirror so that its faulty images...