Word: harmlessness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...deliberate genius for writing of the perplexing muddle known as Life to Average People. Still others, a critical few, whose censure affects the sales of Author Hutchinson's books about as much as it would discourage gum-chewing among U. S. salesladies, maintain that this author is a harmless dolt with a flair for illiterate sob-mongering...
...morning. Meanwhile there is a country dance. Jackson falls in love with the local belle argues state rights, the purpose of the Constitution, and the excise tax on whiskey, and forces the duels before their time. One man he kills; the other is so drunk that Jackson fires in harmless disdain over his head. The last act he spends in the girl's cabin, in love making for a time, then in explaining that he is a troublemaking fool (which he is) and his departure...
...have two fixed ideas well known to my friends, harmless obsessions with which I sometimes bore them, but which have a direct bearing on this important problem. The first is the comparative uselessness of men above 40 years of age. This may seem shocking, and yet read aright the world's history bears out he statement.... My second fixed idea is the uslessness of men above 60 years of age, and the incalculable benefit it would be in commercial, political and in professional life if, as a matter of course, men stopped work at this age. ... Whether Anthony Trollope...
...Potiphar's wife -whose passion Joseph did not share." Obadiah, says Author Allen, "is a very common name in the Scriptures and none of its bearers has any claim to particular distinction." Neither, it may be added, has Author Allen's book. It is entertaining, harmless, perhaps useful...
...Nassau Literary Magazine, and the Syracuse University Speckled Bird--all of which fell under the ban of censorship. If the two Harvard publications are representative of the others in this quintet, it would be folly to say that their suppression is evidence of any deepseated revolt among college students. Harmless satire bordering on bad taste is not sufficient proof of a revolutionary spirit. Satire and parody do furnish evidence of mental alertness of a critical disapproving sort. If the offended and offending college publications prove anything at all, it is that there is present in many students a vague consciousness...