Word: tainted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ranks of Hoosier Republicanism. His charges have not yet been proved, but they make good campaign material. Last week Senator James A. Reed, wary slush bloodhound, stalked into Indiana for one day, long enough to hear Senators Watson and Robinson deny any connection with the Klan's taint. Unless the Democrats can "get the goods," Senator Watson looms for reelection, with Senator Robinson as his more doubtful ticket companion...
...rests upon inalienable rights and universal principles, a paragon of excellence which the rest of the world ought to copy but does not. Hence our laws insist that the Constitution be studied in our schools and colleges with due regard for the sanctity of the text and with no taint of higher criticism, but rather in all its textual literalness--that is to say, in the same uncritical spirit that characterizes the fundamentalist approach to the first chapter of Genesis...
...Athenian press last week with a definite purpose. The recently deposed dictator of Greece, General Pangalos is soon to be brought to trial, and it is intended to convict him of high treason. At the same time the present dictator of Greece, General Kondylis, must be purged of treasonable taint, though he seized power (TIME, Aug. 30) by exactly the same violent means as did General Pangalos (TIME, July...
Assiduous campaigning against this superstition by the Japanese Women's League is reported to have been almost without avail among the more ignorant classes. Among even the socially elect, engagements are frequently broken if the youth discovers his fiancée to have a Hinuma taint...
...anywhere, at any time? If so, let a specimen of the descriptive prose be here entered: "The March wind staggered about the Concord house, striking at doors, shaking shutters. By its sound you knew that it smelt of melting earth and sticky buds. Inside was a dingy, not unpleasant taint of coke burning in the Franklin grate, and a lingering fragrance of dinner . . . ticking clocks, the reptilian hiss of fire, and without, the scampering wind...