Word: harmfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fashionable authors. For instance, she sincerely believed that every man had been in love with his mother when he was a child." His wit has plenty of vinegar: "It is a great mistake to place unlimited confidence in the malice of man. They seldom do us all the harm they might...
...honor of the League of Nations and his cynical efforts to let Mussolini have his way in East Africa have been too unprincipled even for Gallic tastes. The so-called Hoare-Laval peace proposals which so nearly sent a British cabinet to its doom also did sufficient harm to Laval's already shaky reputation as an international peacemaker. Realistic France must now admit that the way to insure peace is not to let Mussolini have a free hand but rather to crush him before he and his imitators more seriously upset the order of the world...
They'll do me no harm...
...poor farmer more than the rich ones. I believe that we should be interested primarily in the farmer who tills the soil and not in the absentee landlord. I believe that the A.A.A. so far has done a great deal of good and not done a great deal of harm. However, in the long run, I feel that crop restriction is unjust to the consumer and will eventually destroy commercialized farming itself...
...story has been faithfully recorded with a little telescoping that does no harm to continuity or theme. The only discrepancy that is really noticeable is the complication between Carton and Barsad which becomes necessary because a double for Coleman could not be found to take the part of Charles Darnay and the identification of Darnay had to be frustrated by a species of blackmail over the witness, instead of the genuine resemblance between Carton and Darnay. It is also unfortunate that the movie magnates have to change the inimitable touches which the great authors have included in their works. Dickens...