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...better. He is not satisfied with attacking the superintendent of schools, who seems to be practically a member of the British Secret Service but he has appointed Mr. U. J. Hermann, a well known sportsman, to search every history book in the public library for traces of the "British taint", or in brief, to go gunning for the British lion...
...three men chosen are eminently "respectable"--with no tinge of radicalism, no public favor to seek, and no political axe to grind. One of them is himself a member of the judiciary; another has been a member of the bar; all are men of many interests, without the fatal taint of narrowmindedness. Their appointment should reassure all but those who want the "dignity" of the court maintained at any price...
...Appeal to College Presidents" in the May Review of Reviews, Hamilton Holt, liberal, President of Rollins College at Winter Park, Fla., let it be known that the professional taint has not yet been removed from athletics in southern colleges. Naively, he told of the money-enticed athletes whom he had ousted from Rollins College. Then he suggested a new solution...
...mother. Late in life, after angelic visitations, to Anna and Joachim was born a daughter, Mary. Roman Catholic dogma says that she was herself immaculately conceived.? Early theologians, while maintaining the freedom of Mary from earthly sin, held that she was born like all mortals with the taint of the original sin. How else, they argued, could she have been redeemed by Christ? From her third to her twelfth year (according to the same source) Mary dwelt in the temple; when she became of nubile age, Joseph was chosen from the widowers of Israel by divine token...
...trial, which had long since become a legal farce, drew to a close without any real evidence against the character of Mr. Gladstone having been adduced. Viscount Gladstone admitted that Mr. Gladstone often spoke to fallen women on the street, but explained away all taint of scandal as follows: "My father founded the Newport Market Refuge for Women, and helped to found St. Mary Magdalene Home as a refuge for fallen women. I remember going to these places with him as a boy. My mother went too. The main social work in which my father and mother were interested took...