Word: tainted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Bees. There will be not the slightest taint of commercialism about this Congress. From the town of Mundelein and the now sacred neighborhood of the Seminary of St. Mary of the Lake, peddlers of souvenirs will be rigorously excluded. The pilgrims will each be given an official bronze medal. Last week a ton of them came from Rome...
...hards Mary MacSwiney and Father O'Flanagan were successful in purging "We Ourselves" from any such "conciliatory taint...
This hymn from a Blue Book was in yesterday's mail and had such a touching taint of truth in it that to forbid its inclusion here would be more than criminal. But, though examination monitors are rather cheerless brethren. I have just found that there is an even worse outfit--the Baptists. In Herr Mencken's monthly a long article by James D. Bernard dissolves any of my fond hopes for the Baptists of the world. In truth the casual reader of Mr. Bernard's essay could easily believe that the only difference between Baptist and Moron is philologic...
...principal issue raised by Professor Richardson in his report to the N. C. A. A. is that of keeping the college amateur from the professional taint and yet not drawing too line a line. Professor Richardson pointed with approval to the position taken by the Harvard Advisory Committee. Charges of professionalism have been made against college men who play on hotel baseball teams, or are active in the game as camp counselors, or give athletic instruction in some other form. The Harvard position is that such participation does not impair their amateur standing...
...Chamberlain's true worth. You will remember that Macaulay writes of Gladstone as one of those "stern and unbending Tories." Macaulay was right. Gladstone was an aristocrat by birth. It was just as true of him as any other human being that "environment will never totally eradicate the taint of heredity...