Word: scandalizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When Edgar Lee Masters' classic novel Spoon River Anthology first appeared in 1915, it had the popular advantage of topicality but was freighted with scandal. Masters had compiled reminiscences portraying all the virtues and vices of small town life during the Civil War and Reconstruction and some of the tales depicted actual people from the town where he grew...
Under Johnson, the department also faced a scandal involving the eight-week visit of a Saudi Arabian prince...
...every moment of Johnson's tenure was scandal-ridden. He over-saw many successful investigations, most notably the capture of the so-called "Widener slasher" after an exhaustive five-year search...
...keep Kane from Hearst. Mank couldn't, anyway. He handed the script to Charles Lederer, who was both Davies' nephew and the new husband of Welles' ex-wife. It came back annotated by Hearst's lawyers. And that was just a hello. Soon the old man was promising scandal and lawsuits against RKO and any theater chain that dared exhibit the film...
QUEEN MUM Just about the last royal left untouched by the breath of scandal...