Word: tainted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...carnival, Marguerite Gautier (Yvonne Printemps) and her idealistic young lover, Armand Duval, escape to a cottage in the campagne. An admirable restraint marks the scene in which Armand's father persuades Marguerite to return to Paris, and the final reconciliation in which Armand finds her dying of consumption. The taint of melodrama appears only when, during the famous gambling scone, Armand flings his winnings in the lady's face and stalks from the room. The supporting cast is capable, and the costumes maintain themselves convincingly in the early 19th century tradition...
...others, when they demand an alignment of New Dealers against the Old Guard, irrespective of party, screen half the truth from public view. Though it adorns its measures with a bold pretence of liberalism, the group in power seems to practice a good many fundamental tenets of reactionary taint...
...unconstitutional ban on interstate shipments of hot oil. Its retirement, however, was by no means the signal for reopening every secret valve and bypass. A stronger Texas hot oil law went into action on Christmas Day, and despite the thuggery, bribery, judicial connivance and wholesale corruption that taint most oil operations in the East Texas fields, State control appeared to be working for once...
...gain a position in which they may promulgate the reforms that are so necessary. But it is a polluted form of government that makes such tactics a necessary asset to the aspiring leader. And how morally strong, moreover, must the person be who never allows the means to taint his ends and how closely associated the two usually become. In this past election, of course, it must be remembered there were other factors which influenced the results but in the respects pointed out above it was similar to those expressions of public opinion that have been made for many decades...
...first page editorial: "The incident marks a climax in a series of political maneuvers that have embarrassed and handicapped the Bureau of Mines under this Administration. . . . It is a technical Bureau. Its Director and personnel should be selected primarily for technical qualifications . . . should be kept free from the obvious taint of political patronage ... if the Bureau of Mines is to escape still further indignity and disintegration...