Word: scandalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beastly Riot. There was plenty to celebrate. The Salon d'Automne was the first Paris salon to stage a retrospective exhibition, devoting a whole room to the works of Cezanne. In 1905 the Salon got what it needed to become a popular fixture: a first-class scandal. Fauvism, expressed in the wildly colored canvases of les fauves (the wild beasts, e.g., Matisse, Marquet, Derain and Vlaminck), caused an artistic riot. Respectable gentlemen insulted each other, shook their ivory-capped canes at the canvases. Raged one critic: "A pot of paint has been thrown in the face of the public...
...politics is always conducted by using the past record to disclose and correct past mistakes. The Teapot Dome scandal lived for years as an example of Republican laxity toward corruption; it died only when the Republican leaders convinced the country that their attitude had changed. Through the 1930s, the U.S. watched a grim pageant of congressional hearings which dug into banking and brokerage practices that had contributed to the excesses of the boom years...
Caught in a flareback of history, desperate Democrats tried with might & main to wriggle out of the Harry Dexter White scandal. Their line was different from the flat assertions of outrage ("Red herring," "I do not intend to turn my back . . .") that greeted the 1948 charges against White and Alger Hiss. This time the fact of espionage was more or less admitted. Harry Truman acknowledged that White was disloyal, and even the New Republic said: "There can be little doubt that White was guilty of the actions described by Miss Bentley.'' i.e., passed secrets to the Communists...
...week long the Harry Dexter White scandal burst over the head of Harry Truman. At first the former President reacted as though he had been startled. In a single day, he took two conflicting positions. The first was that he knew nothing about the FBI reports on White, but had fired White as soon as he found out he was disloyal. When Eisenhower's press secretary made public a laudatory letter from Truman accepting White's resignation, the former President took Position No. 2: White was "fired by resignation" (TIME...
...rock-ribbed Republican Nassau County (pop. 672,765), is J. Russel Sprague, old friend and crafty political lieutenant of New York's Governor Thomas E. Dewey. Last week Sprague, under fire for his ownership of $500.000 worth of stock (which cost him, in effect, $24,000) in the scandal-ridden Yonkers Raceway, resigned as New York's Republican national committeeman...