Word: harmlessness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...shock to one after those which have appeared urging unity and All-Americanization. If an intelligent man has such "Honest Beliefs" as those of Mr. Debs, it is not only good but necessary that he be locked up and kept in confinement until such time as he has become harmless and has fully expiated his treason. You say that Debs is now harmless? How can a man with such "beliefs" as he displayed during the war be harmless when there are thousands, even millions, of uneducated unthinking near-Americans who accept his world as law because they have not enough...
...Angell, who has lived in France and Germany, and has been for several years intimately associated with British political movements, deals in his lecture with the forces that underlie the social upheavals in Europe and what constitutes their danger; ending with an outline of what policy might render them harmless...
...exacting; his affairs are prosperous, but he has not much leisure to devote to his boys. He comes to think mainly of the material possessions his children will enjoy, rather than of their character and usefulness. In time he dies, leaving a large fortune, and his sons lead innocent, harmless, but useless lives. His aim was their welfare, and yet, by mistaking the means for the end, he has failed to make them as happy as he might...
...fortunate that there are officials in this country who can tell a harmless radical from a bomb-thrower, who refuse to be swept into panic by the sight of a soap-box or a red banner. It is fortunate, too, that some of our courts have not forgotten that an alien, like anyone else, has his rights before the law--that he is to be judged innocent until he is proved guilty...
...which so many of us sympathize, would suffer more harm than good from the presence of American diplomatic and consular officials. If the gentlemen in Washington desire to help the Irish, we strongly recommend them to think a second time. If, however, they merely wish to enjoy a little harmless fun by twisting our international relations into an even worse tangle than the present, and to bring on a possible war with Great Britain, they need not search far for better means than this...