Word: scandalized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dangerous, and it has a certain virtue in putting the small players in trim for larger struggles. To undergraduate onlookers,' the present batters at Yale and Dartmouth keep their proper proportions. But outsiders are more gullible; finding that the critics take themselves seriously, they are quick to swallow the scandal. And how seriously the critics do take themselves...
...appears that there is more to the " fireproof coal" scandal than a mere Hearst tour de force. Senator Pepper of Pennsylvania has been enlisted in an aggressive war against a group of coal swindlers in his state. The names of 28 Pennsylvania producers and sellers of adulterated coal have been published under state authority...
...Socialist Call, on the other hand, uses the scandal as revolutionary propaganda. Speaking of the District Attorney's attempt to keep " Marshall's" identity a secret, it says: " This servility and crawling before a millionaire justifies the hot anger of workingmen, who always find the ' majesty of the law' flaunted in their faces...
Said Thomas A. Edison: " I wish that the newspapers would print more of the kind of thing you see in The Literary Digest. That has been a great success. It has no scandal." This vexed The Daily News, New York: " Newspapers print the news. That's why they're called newspapers. That part of the news happens to be scandalous is the fault of the people who make it, not the fault of the newspapers." Readers of the San Francisco Chronicle get fun. No sooner had that journal completed a solve-the- mystery-detective-story Prize Contest than...
...lest the "School for Scandal" breathe secret insinuations, all these social service workers are provided with the best references, have signed promises to absain "Teetotally" from liquor or sentimentality, and are pledged to report any violations of the rules. The slightest disparagement is enough to disqualify any worker from further service. Everything is highly proper...