Word: harmlessness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Boomerang. At the annual luncheon of the Associated Press in Manhattan a month ago (TIME, May 5), President Harding launched what seemed a harmless little trial balloon. Now President A. Lawrence Lowell of Harvard University has turned that balloon into a boomerang...
...that reason, he has turned his political ideas into critical channels and his ability to analyze our current literary product is appreciable. During many days and nights spent in his home, I have heard only one political discussion, and that one, to my untutored brain at least, as harmless as a revival meeting. There, however, one does hear good conversation. It is one of the few places I know where it is possible to discuss abstract ideas over a long period of time without the introduction of personalities. Dell is keen, fearless and just...
...doubly so with the apt subtitles. Incongruous comparisons are an excellent means of making things look ridiculous, and Lampy has used that means to good advantage. The intimate glimpses of "the spacious colonial mansion of Mrs. Nicholas Carter in Butte, Montana" form a perfect take off, appearing natural and harmless enough at first glance, but revealing their sly satire in the captions and details...
Radio is transforming the otherwise harmless air into a veritable bucket-shop bedlam, with twenty-one thousand transmitting stations between the Great Lakes and the Rio Grande. The government itself has begun to display distress signals. The Kellogg-White Federal Radio Control Bill has been introduced to bring some sort of order out of the present chaos of jazz-bands, sermons, crop reports, and sporting syndicates running simultaneously on the same wave lengths...
...Cambridge morals, it would ruin the friendly feeling which one ought to feel for France if so improper a French paper were taken in. People would get from it quite a wrong impression of French character. The supporters of "La Vie" maintained that the paper was quite harmless;--though to the pure all things apparently were impure. They pointed out that no one need look at it if he didn't want to. After a heated discussion the friends of the paper won the day, but its enemies, in accordance with the rules of the society, demanded a poll...