Word: harmful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...electric shock, ran away yelping. Soon the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals heard about Mr. Burns's electric fence, asked for an injunction to compel him to remove it. Few days later the Philadelphia Electric Co. tested the fence, pronounced its amperage too low to harm dogs or children, and the S. P. C. A. called off the suit...
...Hearst New York Journal and American was strong for suppression, but the New York Post wanted to know "Is Motherhood Indecent?" Said the Boston Traveler: "Every one of us was born. Is it any harm to know how?" Editor & Publisher, respected journalists' journal, editorialized: "We can point to no better channel of education than pictures selected by an editor with a sense of decency, balance and intelligence." Most belligerent in defense of LIFE was the Conference of State and Provincial Health Authorities of North America meeting in Washington this week. The Conference endorsed "the journalistic enterprise of LIFE magazine...
...wholesale sterilization of maniac depressives might in the long run, he said, do more harm than good, for such a move would undoubtedly rob the world of many artistic geniuses...
...affront but in England the epithet used will have a different implication and will have an injurious result. I have received a protest from Miss Field's manager in England and as the producer of her pictures I appeal to your sense of fairness to right the harm done her in this matter...
...mother went to see George M. Cohan impersonate her son in I'd Rather Be Right, the musical comedy in Manhattan which mildly spoofs the Administration. Mrs. Roosevelt Sr. had reserved her seat in another name, but the news leaked out backstage. Actor Cohan, who would not harm a fly unless it was a typhoid carrier, soft-pedaled a line here & there. But at other lines of his, such as "'If Eleanor would stay at home, I'd get a decent meal," Eleanor's mother-in-law heartily...