Word: scandalizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...turn of the century, a murder scandal shocked the peaceful city of Glasgow, Scotland. A girl in her early twenties, the eldest daughter of a socially prominent citizen was indicted for poisoning a young Frenchman who had been her secret lover...
...become a literary sensation, was "a frightful mess, muddle, complication and botheration." The incident definitely scarred Dickens' and Thackeray's relationship. Yates remembered it bitterly all his life, and in the issue of Time for January, 1880 (see cut) gave his own version of the old scandal...
Nineteenth Century sculpture was more lifelike than lively, consisting mostly of well-proportioned heroes and heroines correctly modeled in conventional poses. Young Rodin easily licked his contemporaries at that game. His male nude Age of Bronze caused a scandal at the "Paris Salon of 1877" because the judges mistakenly supposed it must have been cast from life. No one could make the same mistake about his later, greater bronzes. Dented everywhere by Rodin's thick thumbs, they were expressions of life, rather than copies. His marbles, when made by professional stone carvers from Rodin's clay models, were...
Under him, the bureau became one of the best in Washington. Besides Ross, it included crusading Paul Y. Anderson (who won the Pulitzer Prize for articles exposing the Teapot Dome scandal), Raymond P. ("Pete") Brandt, now head of the P-D bureau, and Marquis Childs...
...Committee for Economic Development came out for a flat "defense profits tax" on top of a reduced corporate income tax plus increased excise taxes. Said C.E.D.: "The fact that excess profits taxation was an incentive to extravagant expenditure for travel and advertising was a national joke and a national scandal during the last...