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Assiduous campaigning against this superstition by the Japanese Women's League is reported to have been almost without avail among the more ignorant classes. Among even the socially elect, engagements are frequently broken if the youth discovers his fiancée to have a Hinuma taint...
...anywhere, at any time? If so, let a specimen of the descriptive prose be here entered: "The March wind staggered about the Concord house, striking at doors, shaking shutters. By its sound you knew that it smelt of melting earth and sticky buds. Inside was a dingy, not unpleasant taint of coke burning in the Franklin grate, and a lingering fragrance of dinner . . . ticking clocks, the reptilian hiss of fire, and without, the scampering wind...
Bees. There will be not the slightest taint of commercialism about this Congress. From the town of Mundelein and the now sacred neighborhood of the Seminary of St. Mary of the Lake, peddlers of souvenirs will be rigorously excluded. The pilgrims will each be given an official bronze medal. Last week a ton of them came from Rome...
...hards Mary MacSwiney and Father O'Flanagan were successful in purging "We Ourselves" from any such "conciliatory taint...
This hymn from a Blue Book was in yesterday's mail and had such a touching taint of truth in it that to forbid its inclusion here would be more than criminal. But, though examination monitors are rather cheerless brethren. I have just found that there is an even worse outfit--the Baptists. In Herr Mencken's monthly a long article by James D. Bernard dissolves any of my fond hopes for the Baptists of the world. In truth the casual reader of Mr. Bernard's essay could easily believe that the only difference between Baptist and Moron is philologic...