Word: scandalizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...damp-eyed notion about the basketball scandal was that the players who dumped games for fixers' gold were just poor little lambs led astray by evil gamblers. Last week in Manhattan, the police dredged up enough new muck to drown the idea. The latest batch of basketball crooks, it appeared, had been just as eager to doublecross each other over the payoff money as to rig games to fit gambling odds...
Open Mouths. The scandal caught many of the nation's top sports editors open-mouthed in cheers for the wrong people. The authoritative Sporting News of St. Louis was off the presses and in the mail with a story naming L.I.U.'s pantherlike Sherman White, one of the bribetakers, as its "player of the year." Look hastily scratched White's name from its All-America team, chosen by the votes of 430 sportswriters. Collier's rubbed White's name from its own All-America squad in a story already in type...
...Blame. Most of the editorial writers, who sought to fix the blame for the scandal, vibrated noisily in their own keys. The good grey Times (which has never printed tables of basketball's betting figures) thought "the home, the neighborhood, the campus, the college" at fault for fostering "a crooked, distorted sense of values." The Chicago Tribune blamed it all on the New Deal. Manhattan's Daily Worker tied it in with "profiteering chairmen of Wall Street corporations, with bankers, big-shot politicians grabbing the war contracts...
...official in the King's retinue (e.g., automobiles come under the eye of the Superintendent of the Royal Mews†). Warrants are issued in the name of one individual in a firm, may be canceled if he dies, if the firm goes bankrupt or becomes involved in a scandal, or if the King switches to another brand...
...town must clean up its own mess if it wants to avoid interference from Washington and points north. The "outsider" who is killed by the mob is a crusading newsman who works for a paper no farther away than a large Southern city. Though they want to suppress the scandal, the town's respectable citizens are opposed to the Klan...