Word: tainted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...happier creature than the Southern negro of the old type does not exist Carefree, without a thought of the morrow, his is the perfect joy of the eternal child. Yet his inefficiency as a workman defies all comparison. One never hears of a negro committing suicide. "But taint strange, Boss," says Rastus. "When a nigger gits into trouble, and starts thinkin, he just naturally goes to sleep." His childish joy is the product of a mind that does not function...
English Fear Soviet Taint...
...perceive no reason why the budget system should not be beneficial in a campaign, as it has proved to be in government. It is to 'be tested by our Committee. . . . There should be no relaxing of resolute endeavors to keep our elections clean, honest and free from taint of any kind. Only the closest scrutiny, both of the sources of contributions and the character of expenditures, can accomplish this laudable purpose. For the first time, this has been provided for the coming campaign through the appointment of a competent Senate Committee vested with ample authority. . . . The statutes provide...
...witnesses, to spy upon investigators and finally, by trumped-up indictment, to frighten and deter them from the pursuit. . . . With what patience shall we greet the libelous suggestion that, after all, these are but incidents provoked by the demoralization attendant upon the Great War? . . . Shall we forget that no taint of dishonesty or corruption has ever attached to any man who held public office during that great struggle or to any man who continued to hold office under the Federal Government until March 4, 1921? Shell shock was late, indeed, in arriving if it is to be put forward...
...thought we knew fairly well what the expression "reeking with the taint of special privilege" meant, but so long as MR. UNTERMYER contends that we don't know what it means we must content ourselves with saying that it sounded like hell...