Word: scandalizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...determined effort by a segment of the motion picture industry to 'get' this magazine" was responsible for a Los Angeles indictment charging Confidential with criminal libel and three other counts (TIME, June 24). Invoking God, the Stars and Stripes and "the world's largest newsstand sale,"* Scandal-mag Publisher Robert Harrison declaimed: "We believe that the truths we have published have been in the best traditions of American journalism...
Modern Britons know better than to pack up their troubles in their old kit-bags. Instead, more than 130,000 suffering souls each year write, telephone or wire their woes to the cockney-sharp Daily Mirror (circ. 4,723,131) or its scandal-breathing sister, the Sunday Pictorial (5,709,893). Encouraged by occasional black-boxed invitations in both tabloids (DON'T WORRY ON YOUR OWN), Mirror readers address their problems to one Philip Wright, while the Pictorial asks the woebegone to confide in its John Noble...
...took them 50 years to win their first World Series-and then, a year later, they learned that the Chicago White Sox, whom they had beaten, had thrown the series for gamblers. So the Redlegs' 1919 championship went into the record books as the "Black Sox" scandal. No one won; baseball was the loser...
WROTE Harvard Law Professor Frankfurter in the New Republic in 1924, while the Teapot Dome scandal and the skulduggery of Attorney General Harry Daugherty were being revealed: "Undoubtedly, the names of people who have done nothing criminal or wrong, or nothing even offending taste perhaps, have been mentioned in connection with these investigations . . . But where so much that the Department of Justice was doing under Daugherty was not innocent, it is highly important that even innocent transactions in the general field of fraud and suspicion be explained in order to separate the sheep from the goats. The question...
...gulf between European and African knowledge, he has dabbled in mysterious rites (in one, a man was burned to death by no visible flame) and is now desperately afraid for his soul. The fate of this jungle Dr. Faustus is sealed in what the press calls "the great Clausen scandal." Kenya-raised Novelist Huxley (Red Strangers, The Walled City) has written a literate thriller that is short on gore (despite the unlimited possibilities) and long on insight. It is also a drama of the scientific, humanitarian mind led, in its pursuit of ultimate truth, to its blackest dead...