Word: scandalizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...feeling possible for a large mass of Harvard men. Seldom in recent years has the University received so much undesirable publicity as it has over the fact that it was apparently underpaying the cleaning women in Widener Library. Daily papers throughout the whole United States have made scare-head scandal stories of the matter, weekly journals of opinion have run scathing editorials and searing special articles, organizations so far removed as the California League of Women Voters have issued special manifestoes. Harvard men everywhere have been made the object of sarcastic inquiry and scornful protest, as though they were...
From the first scarehead, it was obvious that the "scrubwoman scandal", brought to light in the Boston press yesterday, was the result, somewhere, of inexcusable errors of judgment on the part of University officials. Despite the fact that the comptroller's office, with the intelligence of an ostrich hiding its head in the sand, refused to release to the public the truth of the case, the actual facts, uncovered in way most likely to antagonize a not-too-friendly press, reveal Harvard's heart to be not wholly as black as it was originally painted...
...just left a master modiste. She likes to swim, to be alone, to play tennis and bridge. She customarily waits a long time between engagements. Among her plays: The Girl I Left Behind Me, Frou Frou, The Two Orphans, Divorçons, The School for Scandal, The Truth, The Road to Rome...
Senator Borah also added: "The permit system itself is a scandal. . . . Practically open saloons are running in the jurisdiction of district attorney after district attorney. . . . I don't mean simply New York or Chicago; I mean a condition which prevails throughout the country...