Word: tainted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
...better. He is not satisfied with attacking the superintendent of schools, who seems to be practically a member of the British Secret Service but he has appointed Mr. U. J. Hermann, a well known sportsman, to search every history book in the public library for traces of the "British taint", or in brief, to go gunning for the British lion...
...three men chosen are eminently "respectable"--with no tinge of radicalism, no public favor to seek, and no political axe to grind. One of them is himself a member of the judiciary; another has been a member of the bar; all are men of many interests, without the fatal taint of narrowmindedness. Their appointment should reassure all but those who want the "dignity" of the court maintained at any price...