Word: tainted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...once said, and wisely: "There is more Hoover in the Administration than any other one person." And what does Herbert Hoover typify? Economic goodliness, organizing skill, a harmless personality with neither pungent anecdotes nor the taint of scandal. And what does the Coolidge Administration typify? The same things...
Since the Roman Catholic Church does not sanction divorce the alternative of annulling the Duke's first marriage has two effects: 1) It removes any possible taint of ecclesiastical bigamy from his second marriage in Roman Catholic eyes and makes it possible for him to enter that Church. 2) It regularizes the second marriage of Consuelo Vanderbilt and sets at ease any qualms of her Roman Catholic husband...
...Vare of Pennsylvania have been elected to the Senate, it remains for upright Senators to find a way to oust them. Morally and, politically the case against them is good. Their primary slush was enough to make onetime (1919-22) Senator Truman H. Newberry look like a deacon. Their taint gave Democrats and Insurgents an issue, embarrassed even the most regular Republicans. A substantial majority of the next Senate will find it politically wise to unseat them. But Mr. Smith and Mr. Vare have raised the question as to whether the Senate can expel them, because of corruption...
...missing a single lecture, is deemed by Dean Pound to be "prima facie an undesirable student", and is threatened with expulsion. It is true that all hope is not lost. Perfect behavior on the part of the "undesirable" may avert the consequences of his grave misconduct. But the taint of the original sin remains forever...
...until the great Dukes of Marlborough and Portland incorporated their estates recently, did the peerage consider this practice purged of all ignoble taint. Since then estate incorporations have become decorously numerous...