Word: tainting
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...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...
...happier creature than the Southern negro of the old type does not exist Carefree, without a thought of the morrow, his is the perfect joy of the eternal child. Yet his inefficiency as a workman defies all comparison. One never hears of a negro committing suicide. "But taint strange, Boss," says Rastus. "When a nigger gits into trouble, and starts thinkin, he just naturally goes to sleep." His childish joy is the product of a mind that does not function...
English Fear Soviet Taint...
...perceive no reason why the budget system should not be beneficial in a campaign, as it has proved to be in government. It is to 'be tested by our Committee. . . . There should be no relaxing of resolute endeavors to keep our elections clean, honest and free from taint of any kind. Only the closest scrutiny, both of the sources of contributions and the character of expenditures, can accomplish this laudable purpose. For the first time, this has been provided for the coming campaign through the appointment of a competent Senate Committee vested with ample authority. . . . The statutes provide...