Word: harmless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...administration is putting theart before the horse. It has avoided as far as possible the expedients of paper money and an unbalanced budget which are in themselves harmless; and it has deliberately attempted to raise prices; to accomplish directly and without compensation that evil which is most to be avoided in all recovery schemes...
...Victorian. In a stout effort to deepen and dignify Poet Whittier's note Biographer Mordell writes this life of Whittier, the first in almost 30 years. Author Mordell denies that his hero was "a modest, mild and passionless saint," admits that he eventually became a "reactionary and religionist . . . harmless genial poet of the people," but reminds the reader that Whittier was also a "mil itant and radical agitator who was charged on a number of occasions with blasphemy and sedition. . . . This favorite poet of juvenile readers and composer of hymns for the elderly was for the greater and more...
...story is old, the treatment is older, and not even a trio of the best second-rate stars in Culver City can give any more glamour to the exhausted Sahara, but withal "The Barbarian" now playing at the University Theatre in the Square is entertaining in a mild harmless...
Biggest news to the banking community was the guarantee (miscalled "insurance" ) of bank deposits, popped into the bill not because Senator Glass wanted it or approved of it but because (seeing that Congress intended to pass it) he preferred to draft the guarantee scheme himself and make it as harmless as possible. The scheme was no simple compromise...
...HENRY MORGAN-W. Adolphe Roberts-Covici, Friede ($3). Buccaneers were originally harmless Caribbean creatures, so named from their hunter's trade of smoking meat on a boucan (grid), but that was before Henry Morgan became their Admiral-in-Chief. By that time (1667) they had found other, more dangerous fish to fry; some of them were no better than pirates. In Morgan's early career he was not much better himself: he served a bloody apprenticeship against the Spaniards in Hispaniola and Granada, quitted himself so like a buccaneer that he was elected Admiral. Jamaica's Governor...