Word: scandalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rattlers & Possums. The Crier reports births ("Who's New") and marriages, but no divorces. It prints no scandal, no matter what troubles Hillsiders get into "outside," but their other troubles are often Page One news. Last week Humphrey Bogart and wife Lauren Bacall talked of a frequent worry of Hillsiders-forest fires ("If there was a fire I'd probably get everybody and jump in the pool"), rattlesnakes ("We find five or six [every] year"), and the high cost of gentleman farming ("Our eggs cost $2 apiece"). And when he talked of possums, Bogey's eyes positively...
...core of the West, the moral climate was foggy. Scandal chased scandal across the year's headlines. Senator Estes Kefauver revived the Middle Ages morality play, on television. Kefauver's reluctant mummers were followed by basketball players who rarely threw games-just points, and West Pointers who were taught a rigid code of honor which did not seem to apply when the football squad took academic examinations...
...added up to one of the gloomiest holiday seasons Harry Truman had ever faced. Behind him the rising tide of scandal pressed closer; ahead loomed the steel deadlock, which might bring the sharpest economic crisis of the year. The President ducked his weekly press conference, labored grimly through the week over his messages on the State of the Union and the budget. This week he boarded his plane for a short respite in Independence, a sorely troubled King Augeas, with not a Hercules in sight...
Throughout the House investigation of the Internal Revenue Bureau scandal, one name kept popping up with mysterious regularity. It was the name of Henry Grunewald, a shadowy Washington operator who apparently enjoyed a large and useful set of acquaintances among the influence peddlers. Theron Lamar Caudle, the ousted Assistant Attorney General, testified that it might have been Grunewald who called Chicago Attorney Abraham Teitelbaum and warned him to pay off a tidy item of $500,000 if he wanted to stay out of income-tax trouble. Charles Oliphant, the resigned Revenue Bureau counsel, admitted that he was a close friend...
...Harry Truman, and a former RFC examiner who became a $60,000-a-year influence peddler in Washington. Indicted with him: Joseph Hirsch Rosenbaum, the lawyer who gave Mrs. Lauretta Young her famed $9,450 "natural royal pastel" mink, and two others accused of swinging their weight around the scandal-ridden RFC. Young and the others lied, said the jury, when they denied using their influence with the RFC to line their own pockets with natural royal pastel money...