Word: harmless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cows her menfolk; and the Blake girls Ginger (Frances Dee), who loves young. Morrow, and Martha. When Mrs. Curry kills herself to make her husband sorry, the circumstances implicate the husband as murderer. When the witnesses come up, each discovers that he has something embarrassing to conceal. Several little harmless perjuries make an airtight case for the prosecution. But at last simple hearts in the persons of Grandpop Strawn and a bootlegger enter as surprise, witnesses and tell the truth, which sounds entirely incredible against the massed perjuries of Glenwood Park. So they perjure themselves, too, and so credibly that...
...them together in a cage. Soon they began to change shape and color. They became more active. Their body heat rose. Their appetites increased. In successive molts they continued to change color until all were black-&-yellow-the age-old color of plague locusts. No longer were they playful, harmless. They fought for food. They had become in every respect the thick-bodied, migratory, ravaging insect which is called a locust. A solitary grasshopper reared alone in a nearby cage caught the madness when put in with the rest. He too became a locust. Dr. Faure separated his locusts...
Chicagoans who read society news are now accustomed to reading daily chit-chat which, besides routine news of socialite comings & goings, serves up harmless intimacies. First to adopt the idea was the Daily News when alert Col. William Franklin ("Frank") Knox took charge last summer (TIME, Aug. 24). Soon the Tribune found it necessary to brighten up its social page. Last week, accompanied by fanfare which included a full-page advertisement and a half-page announcement in the society columns, Hearst's evening American appeared with the chattiest column of them all. Excerpts...
...would hit the Earth, and, at their average velocity of 20 miles per second, the friction of the atmosphere would be sufficient to destroy the smaller chunks entirely, and to diminish the size of the large ones to such an extent that the effect would be largely that of harmless fireworks. However, it is probable that a few large pieces of metal, having diameters as much as a mile long, would reach the Earth and cause considerable damage. As a matter of fact, the atmosphere is the only thing which prevents all kinds and sizes of 'heavenly projectiles' from doing...
...primary function of athletics should be the 'reinvestment' of the wasted energy so admirably illustrated by the 'riot', in permanent additions to the human structure. Only through a balanced development of all aspects of the individual man can youthful energy be directed into the proper channels, and wasteful, if harmless, outbursts be prevented...