Word: scandalous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week the "frame-up" showed signs of blasting Georgia's prison system out of its antiquated, sadistic, scandal-ridden past. Georgia's Governor Ellis Arnall, trying hard to erase the black marks of the Talmadge regime, turned the Cartersville investigation into a study of all State prisons. First step: suspension of Warden Clay and Guard Bryant. Second: a tour by legislative leaders, to learn what other State prison systems had been up to since Oglethorpe first brought his oppressed debtors to the New World...
...Francisco, a thousand miles away, a scandal-sniffing House subcommittee nosed into Kaiser's Richmond No. 3 yard and had its muckraking charges against Kaiser blown back in its face...
...committed adultery was not easy for divorce court Justice Gonne Pilcher to believe. But a Piccadilly plaintiff got his divorce and damages, after his full-fashioned wife Pauline admitted in court it was all true. The Baron is a descendant of Georgian dramatist Richard Brinsley (The School for Scandal) Sheridan...
Intense, ambitious, handsome, emotional, able, fluent, glib and graceful, Rufus Griswold had left his Vermont home and wandered from town to town as a printer, became a protege of Horace Greeley, got into politics briefly, edited the New-Yorker and other gaslight scandal sheets of the 1830s, married happily and became one of the zealots who insisted that American literature could be emancipated from its subservience to England. He also became a Baptist minister, though he never had a church. His anthology, The Poets and Poetry of America, went through 16 editions in his lifetime...
Recognition of Worth. In that pre-Civil War period, the literary life merged with politics and was almost as violent. Two or three great developments charged the intellectual atmosphere with incredible tension, and made each book, and each review of each book, a matter of strategy, vigilance, scandal. One was the recognition by America that its literature was good. The experience was like the sudden awakening of an ex-slave to the knowledge of his freedom, his worth and his inheritance. Griswold's anthology contained Longfellow, Bryant, Poe, Emerson, Lowell, Whittier. (Griswold slighted the South...