Word: harmlessly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ignorance of the correct and artistic method of including erroneous impressions in the same paper with only too obvious conclusions: e. g. "black is not white," "my humble nothingness," "I am not a good critic," "I am not blase," etc., etc., reveals that the critiques are native and quite harmless. Proof: advertisements of plays reviewed appear regularly side by side with these learned literary compositions--that's why they are native. But ah! the glory of success! I discovered one in this A. M.'s Crimlisten: "The humor of the play, which" play, the critic states "is continuous" a dramatic...
...been quarantined on account of a pestilence of European Corn borers, and New Haven is outside the quarantined district. Federal and State agents will be on hand to enforce the regulations against all of the above flowers that have not been inspected by a florist and certified as perfectly harmless...
...sale of Ethyl Gasoline, and in some other places sale was voluntarily stopped until it could be publicly demonstrated that Ethyl Gasoline is itself harmless...
Taken by themselves, vegetables are harmless enough, except when they are heaved by irate partisans at political meetings. The deadly orange speeding on its fell course in a theater would never have been thrown if the hand and brain that impelled it had not been maddened by a diet of turnips and cabbage...
...Carver taught rural economics at Cornell for six months. He spent a few days at the Farmingdale Agricultural School. The rest of the time he remained at Duxbury. At Farmingdale the members of the summer institute visited by means of fifty automobiles the Long Island farms. Though "they were harmless agriculturists" people believed their procession to be a demonstration of the Ku Klux Klan. Professor Carver believes most of the excitement over the Ku Klux Klan has just as innocent origin as this...