Word: harmlessness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...such matters as it pleases to the attention of the Court; is quite at liberty to disregard its decisions, and may withdraw at any time it sees fit. In short, the Court proponents may now boast with even greater pride that American participation in that body would be quite harmless...
...along the liberal lines which have come to characterize the administration of discipline in the University. Harvard has always shunned the childlike disciplinary method of prescribing a fixed number of unexcused absences which a student may take with impunity, a course comparable to the doling out of a poison harmless to a certain point and fatal thereafter. In colleges where this system is followed, the records show the prevalence of the very human tendency to take the full number allowed. The Dean's office in the College has, however, avoided an arbitrary standard and has treated each case...
Life's little jokes include none more guileless than the pricked balloon. No one is hurt, some one is embarrassed, and every one laughs. On the score of such a harmless deflation, so the New York Times relates, the Burgomaster of Roosdorf in Hessen is now a blushing Quixote...
...happened to see in your edition of Nov. 16 the letter about the Prince of Wales. Why should Mary Elizabeth Robinn object to the Prince dressing up as a girl in The Bathroom Door? Young college men the world over do the same thing and the play is perfectly harmless; so why should anyone object? As for saying that England knows him for what he is-yes, they do. They know him as the greatest ambassador England ever had-and the most popular Prince-and don't expect him to be an Angel from Heaven! He works harder than...
...vain his disciples clamored for his liberty; in vain they pointed out that without anything but water, mystic words and prayers, he had cured members of his faithful band of dreadful ills. Scientists explained that he was harmless; the annals of abnormal psychology are filled with such examples of monomania. Said a doctor who examined him: "I sincerely believe that if he lived during the twelfth century he would have been heralded as a saint, but as it is he is seized as a lunatic...