Word: harmlessness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ghosts. When Hertz sees that Hoff is determined to give himself up, he shoots himself. By the time Hoff gets to the police his brain has begun to give way; he will implicate nobody, and when the only witness fails to recognize him the police take him for a harmless madman. Hoff's frenzy increases; they take him to an asylum. There he goes through hell: Herr Neumann calls it "katatonic excitement." Just as he is dying Hoff manages to make what he thinks is a convincing confession. The doctor pretends to believe him, and he dies happy...
Correspondents were amazed at the meekness of those two professional firebrands, Fascist Adolf Hitler and his backer Alfred Hugenberg. These two made no move to start trouble last week but contented themselves with harmless mutterings about what they would do when they got in power. Suddenly the news spread that Hugenberg owed $5,000,000 to the Danat bank which failed fortnight ago. Then was seen some of the shrewdness of the old man in the President's Palace and his keen-eyed disciple. By letting Danat fail, Brüning and Hindenburg had muffled Hugenberg. Munich authorities...
...lacked money and desire to rebuild. He had an apartment in midtown Manhatttan, in West 40th Street opposite the Public Library whose engineering room he still occasionally haunts, and near the Engineers Club which he no longer will visit. In that apartment he kept a few terrifying but harmless lightning machines. The swank St. Regis Hotel whither he moved two years ago was no place for such devices. Dr. Tesla contented himself with studying four pet pigeons which nested in his rolltop desk. Maids complained. He moved...
...Harmless items on last week's List were...
...kinds of water polo: the soccer game and the Old American Game. The soccer game is played with a hard leather ball fully inflated. Since it is difficult to drag the ball under water, spectators can see what is going on. This kind of water polo is comparatively harmless, though tiring. It is sanctioned by the Amateur Athletic Union, by western colleges and universities, and is played in the Olympics. The Old American is sanctioned by the Intercollegiate Swimming Association and played by Pennsylvania, Columbia, C. C. N. Y., Yale, Syracuse, Rutgers, Navy, Princeton. Recently Dartmouth resigned from the Intercollegiate...