Word: taint
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...Athertons are children of the moon. Though her father and her brother stumbled to their deaths under the lethal fascination of white moonlight, Jane Atherton has apparently escaped the taint. She engages herself to Major John Bannister, aviator...
...portion of the Passion Play in America. The act which the hundred players will perform will be a version of life in the Bavarian village, with especial reference to their woodcarving craft. Thus the tradition of 1644, a unique relic of medieval piety, is partially saved from the taint of commercialism
...country who cannot boast the degree of Ph.D. there is a current superstition that he has never won it because none of his colleagues is learned enough to examine him. However, that may be, perhaps his lack of this burdensome dignity has helped to keep him free from the taint of pedantry and make him and entertaining lecturer in spite of his scholarship. It is safe to assert that his public lectures on the five great Shaksperian tragedies, to be given in Sanders Theatre this month will be much more than mere instructive discourses. With his large resources of critical...
...intercollegiate athletics more securely in their proper position as valuable elements in a wholesome college life." President Lowell in his last annual report deplored the "excessive importance" that public interest now gives to college athletic contests. The new agreement is expected to lesson this tendency and to remove any taint of professionalism caused by lax eligibility rules or over-extensive schedules...
Following in the footsteps of Don Marquis, we also add our feeble praise to the "admirable catholicity of taste" of "The Measure". It seems to be one of the few very few, publications that has so far kept its fingers free from the taint of Midas and its mind clear of the mists of materialism. It should be better known in Cambridge...