Word: harmful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...captured its sniping slayer, the question remains what to do with him. Since the authorities have discouraged the simple process of lynching, the law will in all probability take its course. A healthy self-interest requires that the sniper who killed for fun be made powerless to work harm on his fellows...
...loud-voiced Parisian revue performer, Mlle. Marcelle Parisys, in Quel Beau Nu at the Concert Mayol, Paris, (TIME, Feb. 8). Swiftly the following cablegram was despatched to the Washington-Lafayette Institute's Paris agent: "Parisys' number Mayol against America bad effect on press here. Will do much harm if continued. See revue; also Oscar Dufrenne, producer; explain what Washington-Lafayette is doing. Cable results...
...cohorts from too many embarrassing questions. The Deputies filed into the Chamber itself. President Zitovsky declared Parliament in session: "Not since the Treaty of Trianon was imposed upon Hungary at the close of the War, have we gone through such an ordeal as now. . . . This scandal is inflicting colossal harm upon our country. We owe it to her prestige, nay to her very existence, to see that this dastardly crime is expiated." Premier Bethlen arose. The Deputies leaped to their feet and created such an uproar that Parliament had to be temporarily suspended. At length the Premier obtained a hearing...
...have this commercialization of all sports, why not pay the individual player? After all, he is the one who does the work. I am a staunch supporter of athletes such as Red Grange, who turn professional, and are so widely criticized for their action. It would do no harm to pay the college football player...
Instead he would like to see young America clod-hopping to Mr. Dunham's monotonous fiddle. Surely there is no harm in such exercise. The young people who went through it with Mr. Dunham made a lot of noise to indicate enjoyment, but looked very much as if they would rather be doing something more difficult and more graceful. The old folks appeared as if they had never learned to dance at all, and therein lay the pathos of the whole exhibition. It was their patient, uncertain attempts to attain any sort of grace in their movements which showed conclusively...