Word: tainted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...struggle with Communism, with the ideas disseminated by the Russian Revolution--a struggle culminating in his duel with Radek in Berlin, April 1923, a struggle in which there was not only vindication for his honesty but success for his effort. The English Labor Party has been cleansed of the taint of Communism and Direct Action under which it labored during the post-war years...
Leprosy never springs up de novo; it is always the result of direct contact. Children of lepers are born free of taint and can grow up in perfect health. By isolation of lepers, western Europe freed itself from the curse of the Middle Ages...
...little book--scarcely more than a short-story novel in form--will not make any great stir, nor be heralded with superlatives, nor even, in all probability, be granted the attention it deserves. For it is pleasant, gentle, free from the slightest taint of flashiness; and has been written, as all books must be if they are to live, as the embodiment of a certain ideal...
...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