Word: tainted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Yale, Harvard, and Princeton student dailies and the frequent protests from faculty members, reveal the growing revolt against the evil influences of a great sport. . . . . It is the friends of football who are concerned about it now. They hope to see it stripped of its unhealthy intensity, its taint of commercialism and again to find in it more of sportsmanship and a little less...
...unmitigated pimp, who procured Cressida for the dissolute Troilus? To a scholarly mind your use of pander in place of "agent" and without the connotation of lasciviousness is intolerably careless. Thomas Cook & Son are no more panders than is a magazine such as TIME. Neither attains to the requisite taint of immorality...
...captains of industry the ancient but immortal truths that man doth not live by logic only, or by bread only, and that if the undergraduate does not, while yet he may, acquire a taste for those arts surely to be called liberal because fine, and free from all taint of professionalism, the graduate runs serious risk of never acquiring...
...moving pictures. "I have only seen one really worth-while film," he said, "which was one starring the diver, Annette Kellerman. The beauty and grace of her performance could not be equalled outside of the sculpture of classic Greece and yet even this was marred by the taint of realism. Whenever she would strike the water someone behind the screen struck a cymbal to represent the splash...
...worst phases, cannot produce a genuine grand opera. It is distinctly a foreign, alien expression, with a far-reaching in fluence for evil. Today, everyone knows the mental nature of cause and effect; and one cannot witness horrible scenes or be mentally a participant in corrupt and degraded poisonous taint. . . ." Thus The Standard, Ku Klux Klan organ...