Word: harmlessness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cold-blooded hunting of a "spook", that appeals to one's sense of the ludicrous. Yet there is a certain reluctance, too, to see an old romantic supposition thus thrown overboard, and "ghaieties, and ghoulies, and things that go bump in the nicht" relegated to the sphere of the harmless. If this goes on much longer, Poe will be regarded as hopelessly mediaeval, and night-time will resolve itself into a mere prosaic absence of daylight, and we shall all be carrying our own outfits of ghost-catchers. The ghost will become as rare as the bison, and practically-minded...
History, we are told, has a habit of repeating itself. The conquered Prussians, by means of an apparently harmless system of military training, were able to put on the field at Waterloo a force of men that turned the tide against Napoleon; today, "The Reichstag has voted a law to establish universally courses in physical training, lasting from one to two years, for all young men under twenty-five. Under an inoffensive name it has in reality created a complete system of intensive military training." The comparison is obvious...
...hardly worth all the excitement they have created. Perhaps it is because a Vice-President is the man to expose what may turn out to be a menace some more articles are to come we must remember-that explains the wide comment; Vice-Presidents are thought to be so harmless. This is not Mr. Coolidge's way, however: he is a man of ability, and if the case can be proved against the stalking Reds, he will do it. We respect his determination to hasten to the rescue of our fair neighbors, his chivalrous intention to spread his cloak over...
...fashioned" girl to a later generation. . . . The Hobart College Herald sums up the arguments of many of the attacks in this thoughtful fashion; "The outstanding objection to the modern dance is that it is immodest and lacking in grace. It is not based on a natural and harmless instinct for rhythm, but on a craving for abnormal excitement". The Dartmouth Jack-o'-Lantern: "We're a dizzy people. The shimmy proves that, without the ghost of a need for further proof". From the New York University News: "Overlooking the physiological aspects of women's clothing there is a strong moral...
...Mason's perspicacity in discerning that an intelligent man with "Honest Beliefs" can expiate his treason only by being kept locked up, is commendable. I agree with his inference that only by confining such a man can he be made harmless. Mr. Mason, who is well aware that ours is a government by, not of, the majority, compels my respect by the clearness with which he perceives that the "thousands, even millions" who venture from the good road trod by the respectable majority are "uneducated" and "unthinking". I even go with him in his implied belief that the word...