Word: harmless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...significant event in recent literary history has been the rediscovery of Bronson Alcott. Until two years ago this genial New England philosopher enjoyed an unread celebrity as the father of Louisa May Alcott, a friend of Emerson, one of the least coherent of the Transcendentalists, a slightly daffy but harmless mystic. Glimpses of Alcott in Van Wyck Brooks's The Flowering of New England exploded these literary myths. Odell Shepard's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Alcott, Pedlar's Progress, gave further proof of their injustice. This week the publication of long sections from Alcott...
...they violate the terms on which FCC issues broadcasting licenses. For radio stations hold their licenses only for communication to the public as a whole, are not permitted to broadcast person-to-person messages. Scripts are carefully edited by all stations. But when an enthusiastic broadcaster ad libs some harmless dash out of bounds, FCC makes allowances, does not crack down...
...Because the original, short, squat Napoleon smashed the First Republic of France, and the second Bonaparte overthrew the Second Republic, the Third Republic has always up to now refused to do homage to L'Empereur. Last week the Bonapartist cause was finally considered so dead, the Pretender so harmless, that at Ajaccio in Corsica, the birthplace of Napoleon, an oration in honor of the first Bonaparte was pronounced by Navy Minister Cesar Campinchi, who then unveiled a monument to L'Empereur...
...Roosevelt cortege drove through Oklahoma City, out of the crowd toward the President's car ran a tattered figure. Firemen and National Guardsmen fell upon the man, pummeled him until the Secret Service identified him as harmless Woody Hockaday, 52, Kansas eccentric who two years ago, shouting "Feathers instead of bullets!" burst a bag of feathers in the office of Acting Secretary of War Harry Woodring (TIME, Aug. 17, 1936). This time eccentric Hockaday's idea had been to shine the President's shoes for 10?, raise $1.40 more through 14 other shines, buy a bushel...
...less extent, in the bone marrow and kidneys where the endothelial cells seem to absorb them. The carbon particles do not cause any local reaction. ... In short, it may be stated with assurance that this new anti-infectious agent-the intravenous injection of charcoal-is an absolutely harmless procedure which produces no local or general reactions, such as fever, chills, or headache...