Word: scandal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...While good Prince Johann lived, Prince Franz would never have acted this way!" mourned many a grey-bearded householder, and indeed the scandal appeared grievous, for last week His Highness brought home as his wife, to rule with him in Liechtenstein, a mere commoner, Frau Elsa von Eroes of Vienna, with whom he has lived in clandestine, morganatic marriage for the last ten years...
...from this sanguine look ahead, he turned to the present and solemnly, outspokenly startled his audience. ''Our Protestant denominationalism," he said, "with over 150 sects in the U. S., has become utterly obsolete, so far as modern significance is concerned, and is now a public scandal and disgrace...
President of the University of Nevada is Walter Ernest Clark. He personally planned the science school which Mr. Mackay has now endowed with $500,000. In a way the endowment was a certification of President Clark's fitness for office. Last year a scandal-mongering element tried to effect his removal on the allegation that he did not properly protect the students' morals. Investigation suggests that the scandal-mongering originated from the stories of cynical divorce lawyers who have taken out of Reno tall tales of the university students "working their way through college by performing as rich...
...Other newsmen guessed that Editor Gauvreau, a real newspaperman at heart and no Macfaddist, had gotten sick of the daily freak he had created to please Publisher Macfadden. The Graphic, a pink tabloid with the slogan "nothing but the truth," is scarcely newspaper. Torch murders, gang war, divorce cases, scandal, gossip, rumor, crime, are its main contents, dished up for an illiterate public with girl pictures, fan tastic "composographs" and "editorials" by unique Bernarr Macfadden...
Recurring like seven year locusts are Canadian rumors of U. S. annexation or invasion of Canada. Last week a struggling, as-yet-unsuppressed Toronto scandal-sheet, Hush, "The Newspaper with a Heart," published the following...