Word: harmlessly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Student Vagabond has recently been accused of indulging all too frequently in "most just positively gorgeous non sequitura" and while the accusation is perhaps, true, the Vagabond sees no reason why he should be deprived of this harmless and very pleasant pastime. In any case he is going to indulge himself today, so any reader who wishes to peruse something pertinent had better turn to the adjoining column...
...Dynamite is as harmless as a lead pencil if you know how to handle it," said one Thomas Morris of East Portal, Col., as he stuffed a few unimpressive-looking sticks into the groins of James Peak. Next day, in the White House, President Coolidge approached a golden telegraph key, applied thereto his right forefinger. The stimulus of a spark danced across the continent. A few feet of granite were blasted out of their native bed and James Peak had a hole completely through its middle. Outside the hole, safely away from flying granite, Governor William H. Adams shook hands...
...appears to have been handled in a way that robbed it of real seriousness and made it a matter for ridicule rather than scandal. Obviously they find it both expedient and profitable to make the best of a bad situation instead of making the worst of a harmless...
...Berlin, Dr. W. Christ, experimenter, stained a quart of water with a harmless blue dye; made a neighbor swallow the full quart. The doctor wanted to know how fast the stomach got rid of the water. So at intervals, he ran a rubber tube down the neighbor's throat to his stomach and drained off a little water. He learned: in 15 minutes half the water was gone, in 30 minutes four-fifths...
...denied he was a hero, was content. He had had "one last swim." Only at night do sharks frequent Nassau harbor. And when they do come in from the ocean, they are sand sharks; scavengers, not killers. On moonlight nights they may be seen and heard, huge but probably harmless, lurking and feeding near the piles of the town slaughterhouse. Once there was a monster that Nassau called "The Harbor Master." At the buoy where Mr. Havemeyer dived, "shark hunts" are sometimes held. When the tide is ebbing, a goat's throat is cut and the body tied...