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...incompetent to handle his fortune, Judge Knox ruled that the gifts to Mr. Barnett's wife and to the Baptists were null & void, that his fortune must be turned over to the Secretary of the Interior for management. Said Judge Knox: "He [Mr. Barnett] is a harmless, kindly, mentally undeveloped man, who was extremely bored at the court proceedings and had no comprehension of their significance. . . . He has been the shuttlecock in a game of battledore in which the stakes were high...
Captain Charles Robert Senhouse Pitman lamented the slaughter that has been wrought on gorillas, of which he estimated there were but 100 left in Uganda. He reported that there were perhaps 150 white rhinoceroses still at large and called attention to their placid, inquisitive, harmless nature. He said, as all big game hunters know, that the water buffalo was still the terror of the water holes. And he said (here was where the slayers of large animals rejoiced) that elephants are far from dwindling in Uganda...
...York Herald Tribune* for more than a year. Some Cadmanswers, some Cadmonitions: ¶Rotary gatherings "are not intellectual triumphs. They are daily lunches." He has often attended them. ¶ "The evolution flurry has done one great good in America, since it has shown the Darwinian theory to be harmless and useless. We know spiritual certitudes are due to intuition and not to learning. As for fundamentalism, I read the Bible like I eat fish-leave the bones and eat the flesh.-¶Elmer Gantry (Sinclair Lewis' carping at evangelicanism) "represents a huge ocean of mud" contains "barnyard piffle...
Famed British Miner-Communist leader A. J. ("Emperor") Cook (TIME, May 10, 1926) promptly assembled "a mass meeting of protest," declared: "The Government's refusal to grant these passports to harmless, innocent children proves that it is preparing for war against Soviet Russia...
...pardon M. Daudet. The government was reputedly much inclined to this step; and no attempt whatever was made by the police last week to arrest Editor Daudet, who dined sumptuously on all manner of delicacies sent him by Parisians who admire his flashing spirit, consider him at worst harmless, at best a priceless "character...