Word: harmful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were not wreaking vengeance on some barbarous huns who had strung babies up by the toes and wantonly destroyed everything in their path. With the return to sanity they have found that the debt was merely an imposition on a people like themselves of a burden which did much harm and no good. Idealism is no longer tolerated as a defense for the terms which France insisted be exacted from Germany...
...musicians request them to give their names. The musicians begin to praise them by calling them so and so, son of so and so, and thus their hearts are filled with pride. . . . They begin to think about the ways of procuring money. Readers, you know what harm this causes the city...
...goes on to say that Bethmann should have had the political foresight to deny categorically the remark after it had been made. This also, from the point of view of the professional diplomat may be true, but to base a defamation of character upon this premise is inexcusable. The harm done Germany is infinitely greater by Bulow's memoirs than by Bethmann's statement. One was the honest admission of an honest man made under the stress of the hysteria of war. The other was a political criticism by a political man issued after bitter deliberation in time of peace...
...Believing that the drinking of intoxicating liquor does our people great harm and no good, and that I should loyally stand by the Constitution of my country, and set a safe example before others...
...descended. Born in Munich (1884), he arrived in the U. S. at eleven, was educated at the College of the City of New York, and plunged into journalism. The War put a stop to his propaganda paper, Fatherland (later resumed as American Monthly), brought Viereck persecution but no bodily harm. In the post-War millennium he thrives again. Other books: The House of the Vampire, Confessions of a Barbarian, As They Saw Us (Foch, Ludendorff and other leaders...