Word: harmlessness
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...compatible with the conduct of gentlemen to publish to the world the indiscretions of and essentially private details about his friends and acquaintances, most of whom are dead, or to reproduce mere club talk about them? The reader must answer. Yet the book is interesting in its numerous more harmless parts...
...Other Girl is a perfectly harmless injection of the usual musical comedy ingredients made interesting by the presence of Helen Ford and Eddie Buzzell. Playing the "weakest feature of the weaker sex in Quakertown," the latter hits upon a great advertising scheme, takes it to New York, finally acquires dollars to the general extent of a million. Meanwhile, she has been waiting for him. This seemed a serious error in construction on the part of the authors, since any libretto which eliminates Helen Ford from an entire second act can hardly be called flawless. There were one or two able...
...cinematic laughter-bait, dangled rakishly by Director Beaumont inside the standard triangle frame. Corporeal flesh the producers could and did obtain, in the not unconvincing shape of fat Willard Louis, hitherto unknown. But of spiritual tegument the scenario had none. For obvious reasons, Tanis Judique, middle aged and harmless in the novel, was sent to the boudoir and brought out a sleek, home-wrecking creature (Carmel Myers). Mary Alden, the Babbitt wife, has played frumpy parts until they are second nature...
...minority is too weak to defend you, even on the basis of a harmless, but necessary, educational exhibit. It can not now defend itself. The times, and possibly the world and sun also, are out of joint...
...that there are but five types of rays dangerous to life: X-rays, radium rays, ultraviolet rays, ordinary heat rays, and high-frequency or radio electrical fields, in the order of length. Between the ultraviolet and the heat rays is the visible spectrum of light rays. X-rays are harmless beyond a few hundred feet at most. There is not enough radium in the world to secure large-scale results. Ultraviolet rays have the peculiar property of making the air through which they pass a conductor for electrical currents. They can be directed, and it is possible that a method...