Word: harmlessly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Donald MacDonald, 20, and Tod ("Speed") Morgan, 21, turned up on the broad beaches near Culver City and Beverly Hills a few months ago, they were just two handsome young men from the East, seemingly bent on harmless fun. As such they soon met a number of boys and girls. MacDonald told his new friends that he was the New England middleweight amateur boxing champion.- Morgan said he was a boxer too. A quick success with the girls, the pair persuaded a shy young appointee to Annapolis (whose name was withheld by the police last week) to let them...
...budge. To enforce a similar ouster against only 100 sit-downers, armed with meat hooks and cleavers, in the Newton Packing Co. plant, the sheriff figured he would need 600 deputies. In the same ratio, an army of 36,000 would be required to overcome the Chrysler sitters. Harmless were the big manifolds which, mocking the National Guard one-pounders wheeled out for the G. M. strike, they set up to look like cannon (see cut). Far from innocuous were the clubs and blackjacks with which they had armed themselves, the great iron bins lined three deep inside plant gates...
...States governed in a modern way," foamed Dr. Alfred Rosenberg's Volkischer Beobachter, "such a criminal as LaGuardia would be rendered harmless either in a lunatic asylum or in a jail...
Almost as harmless and twice as ingratiating as his gang of burglars is Dr. Clitterhouse, gracefully impersonated by Sir Cedric Hardwicke. The amazing doctor has undertaken a part-time life of crime not for gain but to examine at first hand the pathology of crime. How his clinical studies lead him into more trouble than he had bargained for makes a felicitous tale as amusing as the nursery underworld it describes...
...test is really very harmless. The victim is asked to look through the eyepiece into a pair of miniature headlights. Then he is asked if he can see the man supposedly standing on the road. If he can't he is glare-blind...