Word: tainted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unwholesome taint hung last week over Brighton. The feminine mayor of this most respectable resort on the whole so-called "British Riviera" was almost frantic when embarrassed policemen broke the news to her. In the parcel room of balmy, blissful Brighton's sprawling railway station the headless, armless, legless torso of a woman had been found in a small trunk. Shrilled Mayor Margaret Hardy: "This case belongs to London! Nothing like this has ever happened before in Brighton...
...Club as an instrument to forward their own pet schemes. These beliefs are fostered by the diverse political complexion of the Club's membership, ranging from these who would pursue political will o' the wisps to those who wish to carry out a constructive political program free from the taint of the soap-box- orator...
...House, is roly-poly Maxim Maximovich Litvinov, once famed for insistently proposing at Geneva total disarmament of all nations, now grown more practical. With his English wife Ivy he lives not in the Kremlin, as do most of Stalin's intimates, but at a distance, suggestive of the "taint" felt by Communists to adhere to anyone forced to deal directly and continuously with Capitalist governments...
...Golden Harvest," this week's feature at the Metropolitan, is a mild bit of adventure apparently inspired by the time-honored farm problem. The producers give taint intimations of attempting an epic but, being unable to solve the problem of surplus wheat any better than a Farm Beard, they content themselves with merigages and government aid for the farmers...
...quiet way, with House bells; like all these steps, it is a link in the long chain destined to bind the House tradition. Antedated by the Kirkland Alumni Bulletin, it lacks the mild appeal of novelty; but further than this, like all such publications, it has a vague taint, reminiscent of boy's club circulars, and the bulletins of Ladies Aid Societies, which is likely to condemn it in the eyes of many...