Word: harmfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...woman, aims gun at urchin; urchin, being heroic, stands ground, grabs snow, molds missile, projects it with zeal and fervor; woman, being on ice and copiously refreshed, dedges too late; urchin runs like hell; gentleman, being gentleman, retires with woman and unshot gun; nor murders, no tutors, no harm done...
Britain's Lord Chamberlain, world's strictest censor, saw no harm in Within the Gates. When the play opened in Manhattan last October, half the critical choir went into ecstasies over its allegory of a bishop's illegitimate daughter (played by Lillian Gish) who becomes a prostitute and dies in a raffish poet's arms unshriven by the Church. Since the bishop's creed was left scrupulously unspecified by Playwright O'Casey, no faction of the New York clergy felt impelled to lead an assault on the drama's heresies. But as soon...
...enforced unless all people agree on it, and then there is no need for the law. At present we actually ignore imposed morality. Why not discard it? That can only harm the sensibilities of its few sincere advocates...
...Lastly, in Seville, he is a kindly doctor who treats a trollop's injured ankle, involuntarily saves her soul. When the Inquisition hales him up as a heretic, the Jew flays the Church for being unChristian, is condemned to burn. The facts that the flames do not harm him, that he dies spontaneously in a sudden glow of light, make it obvious that the Jew is redeemed...
...plain clothing gave the x-ray technician all the protection he needed. Recently, however, Mayo radiologists tested their data, found themselves wrong and frankly recanted in the American Journal of Roentgenology. Not to leather gloves and plain clothing went credit for the fact that Mayo Clinicians had suffered no harm but to the unexpected ability of human beings to stand strong repeated doses of x-rays...