Word: scandalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...burglary of a detective and an ex-detective, accused of planning a robbery with an ex-convict, and 2) the formation of a special citizens' committee to investigate police corruption. But in the T-P's hour of victory, Item Publisher Stern sprang his own police scandal...
...Orleans' Mayor Morrison, whose police department was under fire, sided with the TP, whacked the Item for its "scheme ... for the obvious purpose of attempting to produce a scandal." But the Item had the last word. The police department fired Patrolman Brackman for failing to make a prompt report of the bribe offer. And last week the bar-brothel where the baby had been found lost its liquor license. Crowed Tommy Stern's Item: "The Picayune complained . . . that the revenue department investigation 'benefited the Item to the exclusion of other media of public expression.' Cleared...
...Scandal. In telling his story, Author Bruckberger includes a rarely original account of Christ's life and death, as the Magdalene saw it. The Christ of his book is a revolutionary who "gave scandal as though wantonly." Clearly subversive of both Hellenism and Judaism as they then existed, he was put to death not "by the ungodly, but by the 'just' and the 'pious...
...whom Britons loved as much for King Edward VII's well-known unreliability as for her own beauty. Soon after the accession of husband George, in 1910, Queen Mary let it be known that "I will not have anyone around me about whom there is a breath of scandal"-a statement which automatically banished dozens of Edwardian belles from the royal court...
After the 1951 basketball-fix scandals were exposed-with Madison Square Garden as the center of the infection-some sportwriters glumly announced that the big-time game was dead for a long time to come. The report was, as it turned out, greatly exaggerated. Last week a packed house of 18,496 rooters, biggest basketball crowd ever at the Garden, turned up for the final of the National Invitation tournament. Before the final, the fans impatiently sat through a consolation game between Duquesne and Manhattan. By coincidence, though his team lost, the individual star of the consolation game (27 points...