Word: scandalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Leavitt, onetime director of Greenwich Village's informal little Lemonade Opera (TIME, June 20, 1949), tried some of his favorite tricks from the old days. He set up a small platform in the center of the huge main stage, kept the action confined to it. To the scandal of traditionalists, he even took away the tent that generations of Pagliaccis have clung to as they sobbed the clown's famous aria. Tenor Ramon Vinay did his sobbing in front of a dismal little curtain that was lowered behind him. As at the Lemonade Opera, perky choristers danced...
Died. Ronald True, 59, British playboy-killer, whose reprieve from the gallows in 1922 was a public and Parliament "scandal" that almost unseated David Lloyd George's coalition government; of a coronary thrombosis; in Broadmoor, England. Wealthy Psychopath True strangled and bludgeoned a prostitute to death, but was finally declared insane and sent to Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum. There, under the rule that patients may furnish their cells as they please, he lived for 28 years with Persian rugs, oak bookshelves, his own valet...
Basketball coach Norm Shepard, commenting on the Manhattan College basketball scandal, was quoted by the Associated Press yesterday as saying...
Actually, the great British publisher (London Times, Daily Mail) stated only half the case. The real reason why other journalists praise and envy the Post is that in the past 17 years it has risen from the unenvied position as Washington's No. 1 scandal sheet to become the most independent and vigorous paper in the capital. Harry Truman regards it as an opposition organ; the capital's reactionaries have long called it the "Washington edition of the Daily Worker." Yet its news judgment is so sure, its editorial voice so forthright, that, in a city where...
Matter of Ideals. Lucien, like most young wrigglers, quickly learns to navigate the muck. With great credit to his reputation, he manages to hush a scandal that might have brought the cabinet down. Soon after, he is in the thick of a provincial election, passing out bribes as easily as breathing. In all this stock jobbery, the newly invented telegraph serves the political and financial turn of the men in power so often that Stendhal sees the instrument as a symbol of corruption...