Word: harmfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...play On The Spot." When a young London shoemaker, one Arthur Cox, was hailed into Old Bailey for shooting at two bobbies (whom he missed), the Magistrate showed himself Legs-conscious. After sentencing Shoemaker Cox to ten years' penal servitude for "shooting with intent to do grievous bodily harm," Mr. Justice Wright said: "It would be an unfortunate thing for this country if the use of firearms became common. I feel it the duty of this court to visit such conduct as the prisoner's with condign punishment. I hope the sentence will have some effect in deterring...
...this respect nearly as much as their kinsmen of the Continent. Nevertheless they would do well to remember that the fact of leadership of the Bolshevist campaign against civilization and religion being almost entirely in the hands of men of their blood has done inevitable and incalculable harm to the reputation of the Hebrew race in every country of its adoption...
...true leadership, often with faked balance sheets and non-existent dividends. They are the true, authentic, most dangerous kind of antiFascists because they speculate on the good faith of the public. Prison is small retribution for their misdeeds. They sow such infinite ruin and misery and they do such harm that they truly deserve Death...
...commodities will not give much encouragement to business. ... A very bad tariff would be better than constant agitation, uncertainty, foreign animosity and change. . . . Hope for a purely scientific tariff will prove a delusion. Any prolonged investigations, covering many schedules for the purpose of rewriting the law, will do more harm than good. Many will be injured while none will be satisfied. And the country will not be benefited...
...murdered not because he carried incriminating records, but because he, a notorious philanderer, had vexed some wench's man. This sword of scandal the "enemies" tried to plunge into the head of their convention. But all during last week's sessions Dr. Williams kept bobbing out of harm, skillfully, urbanely...