Word: harmless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...begins with a tremendous uprush of air, which rises to 16,000 feet or more. As the storm mounts in intensity, the winds reverse themselves, blow downward. Heavy rain is no measure of a storm's violence; the wildest gusts often grow in rainless thunderheads or even in harmless looking clouds...
...Allen Smith has reason to like cats better than dogs. Before he turned to writing best-selling books (Low Man on a Totem Pole, Life in a Putty Knife Factory), he wrote newspaper features, including movie-star interviews. During that ordinarily harmless tour of duty, the late Lupe Velez once became so agitated that she threw a small brown dog at him. Now, at long last, Author Smith has written a novel about a cat, a large yellow alley cat called Rhubarb...
...First every body hurriedly chews chicken, then orators make long speeches, then singers sing sentimental songs, then a priest collects money for some benevolent fund. . . ." Ehrenburg said that he ran into one group of "provincial dummies . . . convinced that with the help of Esperanto they could make the atomic bomb harmless." But he had great admiration for America's "astonishing technique" of manufacturing: "I do not agree with European esthetes. . . . Let all suits look like one an other; all the same, they are obtainable...
Assuming that the neighborhood theater is comfortably air conditioned, Easy to Wed is a simpleminded, perfectly harmless way to kill a couple of sticky summer hours...
...face, a scraggly wig. But Monica, the Colonel's little daughter, loved it. The Colonel, when he saw it, ordered the doll burned or thrown away. As a rule, Mrs. O'Reilly, the cook, did what she was told, but this was such a nice, harmless little doll. "Oh, lovely, darling," she had said, giving it to Monica...