Word: harmlessness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...corn cure, roup remedy or rattlesnake oil type does appear in the ready-printed portions of many a small weekly, is this frank type of display any more harmful than some run by our larger brothers of the newspapers and magazines? Is a corn cure that is at least harmless any worse than a page spread which infers that the use of Gafoozlers' shaving cream will lead to business success, or that a given mouthwash will end social disappointments, or that 20 mail-order music lessons will make a Philharmonic performer out of a saxophone player who couldn't carry...
...other city in the world so honors its eccentrics as does urbane San Francisco. In the 1860's, the city was the demented domain of a host of harmless witlings, dizzards, giddy-heads and zanies. In the daily 3 o'clock promenade on Montgomery and Kearney Streets, for which the whole city "habitually turned out, were to be seen such picturesque characters as "Topsy Turvy," a woman who had lost her money and her mind in the stockmarket, always wore her clothes inside out, her shoes on the wrong feet and was buried by sympathetic friends under...
...London Times. He claimed to have obtained from Berlin official documents showing that for years successive German Governments have had secret agents in London and Paris preparing surveys for bomb, gas and germ raids. According to Mr. Steed, whose acumen and veracity stand high among his countrymen, harmless germ cultures have lately been released in London and Paris subways and the spread of the germs recorded by German agents. Last week the Nazi press bureau retorted: "There are other reasons for the stench in those subways...
...Charles Winternitz of Yale's Medical School was as happy as any preceptor could be last week. One of his proteges, Luther George Simjian, had just announced perfection of a device which: 1) produces colored x-ray images of internal organs, 2) visualizes highly transparent organs, 3) utilizes harmless, weak x-ray beams. 4) allows the colored images to "be sent by wire to any place the examining doctor...
...conductor leaped off his tramcar, went to her rescue. The crowd mauled him thoroughly. Soon the cobbles rang with mounted police. The Jews fell back a little, screaming for the woman's arrest. The police took her and her candy to the police station, found both quite harmless...