Word: harmlessness
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...boxing boards in those States. Everywhere else Frankie Genaro, elderly and cautious Italian, is champion. Last week in Madison Square Garden the two champions sparred 15 rounds to decide it once for all. Wolgast flopped his long hair up and down, bounced off the ropes, flickered his harmless sewing-machine-needle left with no results. He won four rounds and began to tire. Genaro hit him twice in the left eye with a punch supposed to be fatal to the man who tries it-a right lead. Midget's eye closed. Comatose spectators booed, clapped for action. Once Genaro...
...reptile-a household pet of Dr. Kelly-and let it slide around her neck and shoulders. When the snake was put on the committee table it rustled among papers, allowed Mrs. Owen to pet it. Dr. Kelly explained that king snakes, indigenous to the proposed park, are harmless, destroy rattlesnakes-also indigenous to the area. Confessed Mrs. Owen: she had never handled a snake before...
...Cambridge University, correcting worldwide reports that he had said Belgium was suffering from a return of the medieval "Black Death." Coincidence. Experts of the French Army were busy last week at Lille (80 mi. from the stricken Meuse Valley) producing enormous clouds of what they called "a cheap, harmless artificial fog made from chalk, sulphuric acid and tar products which will be extremely useful to hide the movements of troops in war time...
...bank failure-as all know who have lived in a community where such a catastrophe has occurred-can be called harmless. Yet the South's troubles did not cause great alarm to U. S. banking at large. Rather, bankers in other States said the Southern trouble has been long in coming, is now ended...
...with a genius for hate. "Hatred was native to Swift, as love was to St. Francis. If Swift has been more frequently misunderstood than St. Francis, it is because men are allowed to love without giving reasons for it, but not to hate." His bitterest satire has become a harmless nursery tale (Gulliver's Travels). One of the most lucid minds of a lucid century, he died insane...