Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...DeWitt Talmage will give a lecture in Tremont Temple, Boston, on Feb. 20. His subject will be "The School of Scandal" and this will be his only appearance in Boston this season...
PARK THEATRE. - Fanny Davenport in "School for Scandal...
...many students fully appreciate the relative importance of these events? The newspapers do little to aid us. A polo match, a scandal, or a murder is honored with as prominent a place in their columns, and is as heavily leaded as the account of the downfall of a ministry. In their editorials party wranglings find play ad nauseam. In the maze of news, rumor, gossip and scandal, he is indeed clear sighted who can find his way. The need and usefulness of a course in contemporaneous history will hardly be questioned. Whether such a course is feasible and practicable, will...
This habit of defaming celebrated men, or institutions is but another example of our human liking for scandal. We are all very glad to hear something deliciously wicked about any prominent person, about Congress, about Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Harvard. It tickles us to learn that others are so depraved: for we seem righteous in comparison. And so long as people take delight in the sins of others, so long will newspapers continue to invent their pleasing little anecdotes about our iniquities. There is no help...
BOSTON MUSEUM. - John Gilbert "School for Scandal...