Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Read Them & Laugh. The letter read: "Don't you think it is about time you gave a sermon to your flock about the disgraceful scandal mongering and backbiting by members of your church, especially your warden's wife. She has not a good word for anybody who does not fall with her. She should remember that she is ... at best only a washerwoman and not too clean at that. She thinks she and her poor half-witted man own the church. . . . You poor mutt. . . . You [and your wife] are a bright couple of spiving gluttons...
...Very Surprising." Monsignor Cippico's exposure, the only major Vatican scandal since 1915,* began last August. Pope Pius was at his summer retreat of Castel Gandolfo, deep in the Alban Hills. Beneath his long hand on the light walnut desk lay the morning's mail, with all the envelopes personally addressed to the Pope still unopened. Many begging letters Pius XII marked with a gold pencil, so that help should be sent immediately. Then he came to a letter from an industrialist who complained of the excessively high commissions charged by the Vatican for personal loans...
...Fixes. Clarence Campbell, president of the National Hockey League, hurried to Detroit to investigate. Obviously, big-league hockey couldn't stand the kind of black eye that the Black Sox Scandal had given baseball in 1919. Greying Clarence Campbell, a Rhodes scholar and ex-hockey referee, went into conference with Michigan's Governor Kim Sigler, bustled vigorously about Detroit for a few days, then announced triumphantly: "Nobody fixed anything anywhere...
...result was usually a scandal. Connoisseurs could find their way about like owls in the brown murk of academic painting; Manet's light-filled colors simply made them hoot. His subject matter, all agreed, was worse than vulgar. Manet had seen fit to invite common people off the street to pose for him, he imitated the impossible glare of sunshine, and he even dared to picture nudes in contemporary settings. Napoleon III himself pronounced Manet's Déjeuner sur I'Herbe (see cut) a threat to public morals. Public disgust was summed up in one word...
...caricatures of George Grosz. The first of the three books is The Romantic, laid in 1888, and picturing the world of potbellied landowners and their sensitive sons, a world of meaningless propriety, duels, love affairs with actresses; a world so hedged about with tradition that it is a scandal when a young officer leaves the army to manage the family estate. It is the other side of German romanticism-Unter den Linden with the leaves off the trees; champagne parties with the girls sick in the lavatories and the young men ashamed of their fathers' wild oats; elder sons...