Word: harmlessness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Postmasters to protest against the promiscuous shipment of alligators. Mr. Behymer points out that livestock, under the law, is entitled to the privileges of being mailed. He faces calmly the prospect of "being obliged to attend, water and feed various fowls and irritated livestock",--if they can be termed "harmless" and wear badges to that effect. Mr. Behymer draws the line at alligators...
...mail found life in a crate in an Ohio post-office somewhat tedious. They escaped and spent most of the rest of the day playing tag around the mail files and chewing broom sticks to whet their appetites. All of which led to their being reduced to the "harmless" stage with one of the few remaining broom-sticks wielded by a doughty mail clerk...
...refusal, Kemp (W. C. Jackson '22), the gardner, runs off, becomes fabulously rich, and by the time of the next annual house party at the Burroughs home, he has nearly succeeded in accomplishing the financial ruin of his former master. In the final act, however, Clive's insane but harmless interferances succeed in bringing back the lost fortune and in reuniting the separated lovers. Carr's blemished character is vindicated and the villainous gardner is carried away under the care of two policemen...
...enlightenment and learning extend even farther beyond the range of books than is the case at Harvard. The exhaustive inquiries into contemporary politics with constant delvings into the Classic or Medieval for parallel or contrast leave the unsophisticated American bewildered--he had thought it was to be a harmless tea-party with the conventional small-talk. All kinds of contacts will be made and a good many dissolved in the course of such a year but all leave their impression...
...matter of fact it wasn't so much Princeton that suffered from "This Side of Paradise" as it was the hitherto comparatively harmless flapper...