Word: scandalized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Aside from any considerations of national defense or possible fraudulent handling of public property, the "Teapot Dome" scandal has assumed almost a purely political aspect. It happens that the Navy Department has lost nothing from the standpoint of national defense; it may turn out that the graft which the layman has come to expect in public administration was even less malignant than usual. But the affair has been an excuse for setting off all the fireworks of party animosity, of corrosive personal attacks and of bitter Congressional suspicion...
...Secretary of the Navy the sluice gates were apparently opened to unrestrained of the nation's resources by private interests ... The Teapot Dome scandal has its direct parallel in The Ballinger scandal which shook the Taft Administration to its foundation...
Governor Pinchot of Pennsylvania: "Arrests for drunkenness have enormously increased . . illegal withdrawals of whisky continue to increase, and, most significant of all, the withdrawals of alcohol to be denatured have nearly trebled in two years . . . I know of no scandal in our national history to compare with...
...that the season on millionaires was definitely closed, New York (probably fearing the vote of the nine million taxi-drivers in the widely known metropolis) stayed silent. Accordingly Mabel Normand opened in The Extra Girl. It turned out to be a feminine edition of Merton and guaranteed harmless. The scandal-starved hundreds can gaze, gape and grin at Miss Normand to their hearts' content and bring their children. For those who align themselves with this department in Considering screen Mabel an exceptionally comic personality, the picture will appeal...
...Scandal in the Homes of the Rich The Story. Joyce Gathway was not in any sense mid-Victorian...