Word: staines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Editor Dawson's volunteer correspondents were engaged in a controversy moderately scandalous for them, but they handled it with their usual decorum and historical perspective. It was started by George L. Massy who wrote from Folkestone in Kent that he was "credibly informed that the reason some ladies stain their finger nails is in order to conceal traces of black blood, otherwise discernible there. Perhaps the knowledge of this may induce ladies not having black blood to refrain from the unsightly and unpleasing habit. It is understood that this habit arose in America where color lines are strictly drawn...
Whole Hog, Abruptly from Rome this week came official press outbursts which many Fascists thought presaged whole-hog intervention in Spain by Italy to wipe out the stain of the "Little Caporetto." Il Duce's newsorgans smeared Russia, France and Mexico with charges that those Governments have run arms to the Spanish Leftists in a whole list of instances which the Rome press hotly particularized, roasting especially "France's flagrant violations of the neutral Non-intervention accord signed at London...
This was the Leader's idea of wiping out the stain of that "horrible insult, to German Honor," the awarding of the 1936 Nobel Peace Prize to an inmate of a Nazi prison camp.* Not only the Peace but all other Nobel Prizes are forever barred to citizens of the Fatherland. The new decree went on to set up three annual prizes of $40,000 each in the Arts and Sciences to go only to Germans. Reason given by the Ministry of Propaganda officially: "When we Germans do a thing, we do it thoroughly...
...Health Association. A hearing was set for this week. Meantime Mrs. Taylor's body was exhumed. Examination revealed that she had been shot from the front, the bullet having struck her breast, pierced the heart, come out the back. At once officials attached great importance to a blood stain found on the road 410 ft. beyond Mrs. Taylor's body. "If it is proved," said Chief John Messmer of Louisville's criminological laboratory, "that this is human blood and the assumption that it came from Mrs. Taylor is established, then from the nature of her wound...
...look at the records of the Salem witchcraft frenzy. This was an event in which many prominent Harvard men were involved, but, characteristically, with entirely different points of view. William Stoughton, the chief prosecutor of the witch trials; Nathaniel Saltonstall, the judge who left the bench "rather than stain his hands with innocent blood"; John Hale, the most active minister among the witch-hunters; Joshua Moody, the minister who braved mob fury in helping some of the accused to escape; and President Mather, one of the two men who did most to bring the prosecutions to an end--all were...