Word: scandalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ceramics show in Long Beach, Calif., a bust of a young girl was exhibited by a sculptress whose name had a gaslitera ring to older art patrons. The artist: onetime Showgirl Evelyn Nesbit Thaw, 69, who was plunged into scream-headline scandal (and won the dubious title of "the girl with the bee-sting lips") in 1906, when her husband, millionaire Financier Harry K. Thaw, in a jealous fit of suspicion, shot and killed the nation's No. 1 architect, Stanford White, on the nightclub roof of Manhattan's old Madison Square Garden. But the sting was gone...
...statistics (e.g., Brooklyn's Duke Snider, who is fielding as flawlessly as Mays and is batting .359 to Willie's .331). But with his showman's manner and his in-the-clutch timing, Willie Mays is baseball's sensation of the season. To the scandal of some sentimentalists, he is already being talked of as the equal or even the better of the great Tris Speaker and Joe DiMaggio. He has hit 33 home runs in 89 games-a pace which puts him six games ahead of Babe Ruth's majestic record of 60 homers...
...nearly two years, beginning in 1951, a House Judiciary Subcommittee pried into suspicious tax and fraud cases that had brought scandal to the Justice Department during the Truman Administration. The most spectacular witness was a drawling, small-town lawyer named Theron Lamar Caudle (TIME, Nov. 26, 1951 et seq.). But more often than not the committee's trail led toward the man who had brought Caudle from Wadesboro, N.C. to Washington: onetime Attorney General Thomas Campbell Clark, since 1949 Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. When Justice Clark was asked to testify, he declined with dignity...
Brother Elias, scowling, to his side, Small-souled Elias, crying by book and candle This was outrageous! Had the monks no pride? Music at deathbeds! Ah, the shame, the scandal...
Mary Anne, by Daphne du Maurier. A royal duke, a scheming mistress, a scandal that shakes the House of Commons-in other words, all that Du Maurier fans need for a happy evening (TIME, June...