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...slight cut or bruise may start a fatal hemorrhage, as slight cuts and bruises in an automobile accident did to .his late hemophilic brother (TIME, Aug. 20, 1934). They inherited their blood ailment from their mother, a granddaughter of England's queen Victoria, who doubtless acquired her taint from her German ancestors...
Thus on the legal face of things British, French, Italian and Belgian troops had every "right" to start marching on Berlin with no taint of "aggression" after the Council voted last week. Yet it was never clearer that those who talk loudest about "collective security" are the ones most unwilling to fight...
Since no Jewish or Marxist taint whatever was discovered in the condemned man, who is "pure German," the trial closed with an explanatory declaration by the Nazi prosecutor that "jointly responsible with the accused for his deeds is Liberalism...
...driving tests were warmly urged. Although the College favoured compulsory insurance, the national sentiment gave it fourth ranking--probably seeing in it another manifestation of the "tax" goblin. As was to be expected, both groups condemned marking of offender's cars, and "governors". The former bears with it the taint of Naziism, for present-day speedsters in Germany have their cars marked with a large yellow cross. The disapproval of the installation of "governors" on cars would seem an instance of the strong sporting spirit so prevalent among American motorists, whose driving creed might be "I'll take my medicine...
...Hackensack, N. J., Dr. Lawrence Martin Collins, senior resident of the New Jersey State Hospital for the insane, declared that he had given Daughter Hewitt a thoroughgoing examination only last November, found her entirely free of mental taint. She could, he said, speak & write French fluently, speak Italian, and had read Shakespeare, Dickens, various histories and a book called The Philosophy of Life. "It is my belief," said he, "that this young girl has been conditioned during her early formative years by an unwholesome environment, and that any intellectual deficiencies which may be present are due not to any pathological...