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...witnesses, to spy upon investigators and finally, by trumped-up indictment, to frighten and deter them from the pursuit. . . . With what patience shall we greet the libelous suggestion that, after all, these are but incidents provoked by the demoralization attendant upon the Great War? . . . Shall we forget that no taint of dishonesty or corruption has ever attached to any man who held public office during that great struggle or to any man who continued to hold office under the Federal Government until March 4, 1921? Shell shock was late, indeed, in arriving if it is to be put forward...
...thought we knew fairly well what the expression "reeking with the taint of special privilege" meant, but so long as MR. UNTERMYER contends that we don't know what it means we must content ourselves with saying that it sounded like hell...
...cast one united vote; 3) that the Court should be open to "all States recognized by treaty or diplomatic relations with the signatories." Most of the other amendments have to do entirely with striking from the statute the names of the League and of its parts, so that no taint of them might linger after...
...efforts of the young commander of a light-ship to rescue his beloved and her party, clinging to a yacht that is impaled on treacherous reefs. They are gradually carried off by grace of the wireless and the breeches buoy. The young commander, who must absolve himself from the taint of cowardice inherited from poltroon father, is torn between love and his duty to stick by his ship in a storm. Rod La Rocque is excellent, not only in his heroic moments, but in the dramatization of the inhibition that is the backbone of this story. Jacqueline Logan is convincing...
Much of the adverse criticism, however, was caused by Roosevelt's grandiose pomposity. "I simply lifted my foot," affirmed Roosevelt. "Oh, Mr. President," said Attorney-General Knox in Cabinet meeting, "do not let so great an achievement suffer from any taint of legality...