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...well on the right side of the Detroit tracks. Her father, an investment banker, was a rich man by inheritance and a scholar by nature. Her mother, a girl from Jersey City, is described as "a charming and soignee woman." The family was conservative, but there was a theatrical taint in the blood. Julie's great-grandfather had a longing to tread the boards, but mounted the pulpit instead. He became the second Episcopal bishop of Michigan...
...Voted to hold the next triennial convention (Oct. 5, 1958) in Miami Beach, after hearing assurances that there would be no taint of the racial segregation that caused the 1955 convention to be switched to Honolulu from Houston...
...young girls . . . consisting of motions and gestures beyond imagination wanton." With a wife and children waiting in England, Cook did not say in his famous journal whether he resisted the wanton spell of the Tahitian women, although he got close enough to note that "their breath [was] perfectly without taint...
...Address. Commissioner Helfand could hardly have been surprised. A onetime racket-busting assistant district attorney in Brooklyn, he has been around long enough to know that buying a piece of a fighter is one sure way to buy underworld class-it gives a guy the taint of respectability. So when Helfand tried to find out why a slick young welterweight named Vince Martinez was getting the brushoff from matchmakers, it was not exactly news that witnesses began to mumble about a Murder Inc. alumnus named Frankie Carbo...
Niebuhr's sermon, the text of which was the parable of the Pharisees and publicans, urged that goodness and self-realization cannot be truly attained if they are too actively sought after, and suggested that too sharp a distinction between good and evil was unwise, because "the taint of evil against which we contend is in us also...