Word: harmlessness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Communists. Miles of marching Reds snarled the capital's traffic for hours. Their brass bands shrilled and thumped the "Internationale" (written by a Frenchman). Shaking their fists at stolid police the Reds shouted "Down with Hunger and Chancellor von Schleicher!" The parade was Berlin's most harmless Red spree in years. No one was hurt...
...Holy Roman Empire. Though he made enough of an impression on the Counts Palatine and Conde to get on their army payroll (which was all he wanted), he did not conquer France. Finally he thought of marrying Queen Elizabeth. But instead he went back to Liegnitz. lived in harmless drunkenness until patient Death came to deflate his monstrous belly...
Aside from being a harmless, rapid, amusing little program picture, No Man of Her Own will recommend itself to a large portion of the cinema public because Babe Stewart, the gambler, is Clark Gable, borrowed from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to play opposite Carole Lombard. Typical shot: Gable-whose animal appeal is abated somewhat by a constant sucking at his teeth-persuading Miss Lombard to climb a ladder in her library so that he can admire her from below...
...Mercedes, Tex., confronted with the fact that Mrs. Lucinda Loya de Candu had died a few minutes after taking his supposedly harmless prescription, Dr. Humberto Ruggi Garrido took an identical dose in the presence of challenging relatives. He died in a few minutes. Doctors recognized that citric acid and potassium bicarbonate in the medicine, harmless if taken at an interval, together formed potassium citrate and soda water. The soda water bloated the two people to death...
...Your Hands!" Plump and harmless as a tabby. Labor Leader "Uncle" Arthur Henderson tried to keep the Party on its well-worn track of merely Talking Socialism. "Labor must be definitely international in its outlook," he orated vaguely. "The National Government is Toryism without disguise. . . . There is need for an advance toward Socialism. . . ." Taking this bit in their teeth, the delegates galloped, bolted. While Leader Henderson begged and pleaded for "caution" the Congress ignored him, cheered to the echo a "labor intellectual," Sir Charles Philips Trevelyan (onetime President of the Board of Education) who proposed to block the possibility that...