Word: harmlessness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chief funster appears as Kaiser Wilhelm II, then strips off gold lace, upturned mustaches and so forth until he finally ends in a plain uniform and smudge mustache as Adolf Hitler. At the last minute this political Dutch clowning was killed off the program and substituted were some harmless non-political British buffoons...
...executed upon 16 of the accused, several of whom had long annoyed Stalin by timid carping at his policies, and this trial is still in retrospect so stirring that in Manhattan last week pinks and reds of various hues held a monster mass meeting about it, addressed by such harmless folk as Norman Thomas...
...Catholic property. Wrote he of the game, in which anything from $1 up may be won by filling five numbered squares in a row with beans as the numbers are drawn and called by the banker: "The game of bingo in this diocese has ceased to be a harmless pastime. Whatever financial profits it may yield and whatever may be said in extenuation of it as a diversion, it cannot escape severe censure as outright gambling on a large scale. It is growing daily. The stakes are mounting higher and the gambling fever is rising with them. ... It is scandalizing...
...Horner (Roger Livesey) pretends to be emasculated because his reputation has become such that he is hard put to circumvent the vigilance of jealous husbands. This ruse works well enough in the case of Sir Jasper Fidget, who is only too glad to have such an apparently harmless gallant squire his wife around town, frequent her boudoir. But Mr. Pinchwife, who has brought an artless country wife to London and is in a fine frenzy of determination not to be cuckolded, has not heard the rumor about Mr. Horner and so goes to great lengths to keep him away, finally...
...newshawks who last week investigated the "miracle," Mr. White told a tale which doctors recognized as the history of a case of vitiligo, a harmless but mysterious skin condition which an occasional Negro develops. "About 30 years ago I had a little pimple on my forehead," said Will White. "I went to the barber shop and got some medicine to get rid of the pimple. Next morning I woke up with pimples all over my face. The medicine wasn't no good. The pimples kept coming and going. When they'd go they'd leave a white...