Word: tainted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Appeal to College Presidents" in the May Review of Reviews, Hamilton Holt, liberal, President of Rollins College at Winter Park, Fla., let it be known that the professional taint has not yet been removed from athletics in southern colleges. Naively, he told of the money-enticed athletes whom he had ousted from Rollins College. Then he suggested a new solution...
...mother. Late in life, after angelic visitations, to Anna and Joachim was born a daughter, Mary. Roman Catholic dogma says that she was herself immaculately conceived.? Early theologians, while maintaining the freedom of Mary from earthly sin, held that she was born like all mortals with the taint of the original sin. How else, they argued, could she have been redeemed by Christ? From her third to her twelfth year (according to the same source) Mary dwelt in the temple; when she became of nubile age, Joseph was chosen from the widowers of Israel by divine token...
...trial, which had long since become a legal farce, drew to a close without any real evidence against the character of Mr. Gladstone having been adduced. Viscount Gladstone admitted that Mr. Gladstone often spoke to fallen women on the street, but explained away all taint of scandal as follows: "My father founded the Newport Market Refuge for Women, and helped to found St. Mary Magdalene Home as a refuge for fallen women. I remember going to these places with him as a boy. My mother went too. The main social work in which my father and mother were interested took...
...Missouri rose. Necks craned in the galleries. Mr. Heflin prepared to receive a Voltairian scorching. Said Mr. Reed: "Mr. President, I do not know that we shall gain anything by prolonging a discussion of this kind. I am sorry it has occurred. So that I may remove all taint of suspicion that I speak from interested motives, I remark that I was born and reared in the Presbyterian faith. . . . I do not propose to interfere with the efforts of the Executive to protect the interests of the United States until and unless it becomes manifest that he is pursuing...
...McMahon of the United Textile Workers, who took charge of the strike last summer, after "Communist" Leader Albert Weisbord had withdrawn (TIME, Aug. 23), had dealt conciliatingly with Vice President Charles F. Johnson of the Botany Mills. They agreed that the workers might organize, provided they entertained no Communistic taint; that collective bargaining would be recognized; that no outside help would be hired until all strikers were placed; that the open shop system would prevail; that future disputes would be put to arbitration. Their principals-employers and workers approved their agreement last week; and more than 7,000 strikers immediately...