Word: harmful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stands by his friends. There is, of course, a woman in the story. A sort of Platonic affection grows up between her and the President. She tries to make him see that his friends are grafters and crooks, but he refuses to believe that they would do anything to harm him. The scandals break into the open; the President's big heart breaks with his pals' dishonor. After one last poker revel with them, he returns to the White House and takes poison, thinking it is a sleeping potion. He dies slowly, mourned by the nation-a martyr...
...deleted at once from the Harvard booklet. He had the right to be heard, because he had already contributed 10,000 to the Harvard Law School campaign to raise $5,000,000 for legal research, in which interest the booklet was published. Said he: "The phrase has done more harm than any other single utterance during the past 30 years." Wilson S. Powell, chairman of the committee that drew up the booklet, replied that the phrase would remain, that Mr. Taft had made similar remarks in 1908, 1909, 1918 and had not contradicted the phrase in 1923 when...
...good for the boys and not good for the game Mighty few college boys can stand such exploitation and publicity without getting bad cases of what commonly is known as a "swelled head." The discase is not fatal, but while it lasts it does its victims a deal of harm. Football is a spectacular game, anyhow, and the more formidable players are made the subjects of an extraordinary amount of hero worship and general publicity. Greatly to their credit be it said that many of these young men "come through" with their modesty and dignity unimpaired; but the atmosphere which...
...Tell the public" he whisper" that Bob done his best. It was a mean trick. Why that little tree never did no harm It was a ornament to the community...
...every city of the United States where every radical should be allowed to air his views, would surely lead to a more healthy condition of affairs than that fostered by the careful exclusion policy of Secretary Kellogg. The trite speeches of uninteresting radicals will surely do less to harm the great American public than the overthrow of a policy of widespread education...