Word: taints
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...driving tests were warmly urged. Although the College favoured compulsory insurance, the national sentiment gave it fourth ranking--probably seeing in it another manifestation of the "tax" goblin. As was to be expected, both groups condemned marking of offender's cars, and "governors". The former bears with it the taint of Naziism, for present-day speedsters in Germany have their cars marked with a large yellow cross. The disapproval of the installation of "governors" on cars would seem an instance of the strong sporting spirit so prevalent among American motorists, whose driving creed might be "I'll take my medicine...
...Hackensack, N. J., Dr. Lawrence Martin Collins, senior resident of the New Jersey State Hospital for the insane, declared that he had given Daughter Hewitt a thoroughgoing examination only last November, found her entirely free of mental taint. She could, he said, speak & write French fluently, speak Italian, and had read Shakespeare, Dickens, various histories and a book called The Philosophy of Life. "It is my belief," said he, "that this young girl has been conditioned during her early formative years by an unwholesome environment, and that any intellectual deficiencies which may be present are due not to any pathological...
...production, supplied the entire Wartime anchor-chain requirements of the U. S. Government. Shortly after the Armistice, Mr. Lashar issued an advertisement headed "The Honor in Our Discharge from the Service," said that the company was "poorer in pocketbook" on account of government contracts, that "there has been no taint of profiteering in our escutcheon." He built himself a million-dollar, 100-room residence at Fairfield, Conn., and the company, rapidly expanding, acquired Page Steel & Wire Co. and two small steel companies, sources of raw material...
...Nations Minister Anthony Eden could at first be reached, the sacrosanct British weekend having begun, but Foreign Office underlings at once realized that the high, moral case Mr. Eden had been about to present against Italy at Geneva had been smeared and stultified if not destroyed by the taint upon Britain...
...sowed his architectural wild oats at a time when the power of monarchs was everywhere being curbed, and did not live long enough to experience regrets for their cost. Although Sitwell and Barton write long and authoritatively on the beauties of the romantic architecture he sponsored, a taint of snobbishness and affectation is discernible in their accounts. Despite Brighton and its patron's love of art, Thackeray was probably more nearly right about George IV than Osbert Sitwell and Margaret Barton...