Word: taint
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...Fourth Act. Husband Sam, ignorant of the family taint or Nina's operation, haunted with the fear that he is sterile, is losing his grip on life...
...contradiction suggested in such simultaneity of effort is more respectable that real. Each fund may have a real raison d'etre. The evident informal nature of the Manhattan drive makes it admirably adapted for amateur producers and actors. The Hampdens and Arlisses can depart taking the taint of professionalism with them...
...Royal Family.* If he "can find no evidence of physical or moral harm from the practice of birth control," then I have indeed been misinformed, and I intend to seek out the facts. I had thought that even a knowledge of this subject was in the nature of a "taint," but as a loyal citizen of the British Empire I have confidence that the example of the Royal Family is ever uplifting, never the reverse. HENLY W. FELLOWS...
...from the infant Republic of Panama in 1903 (Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty) the instant the Panamen revolted from Colombia, which had warily been refusing President Roosevelt's overtures.† "Oh, Mr. President," cried Attorney General Philander Chase Knox, "do not let so great an achievement suffer from any taint of legality...
...engrossing, no longer individual. Here and there Author Walpole makes an opportunity to show his accustomed insight; always he manages with complete mastery a theme that many an inferior novelist has fumbled. But though his book is better than the run of schoolboy novels, it never quite loses the taint of sugary superficiality that has lingered in all such works since Eric, or Little by Little...