Word: heedless
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...Marysville, Pa., a child sat on a railroad track, played with a stray bolt, heedless of a freight, train which bore down upon it. The engineer jammed on the air brakes, but hisheavy cars had too much momentum; they shoved the engine forward; it could not stop. A fireman, one Bruce Hoffman, leapt from the engine, raced ahead, snatched the child to safety...
...notables for miles around had gathered in the Egyptian Theatre to see Charles S. Chaplin in The Gold Rush? the picture 9,000 feet long which has taken him two years to make and of which he had remarked: "This is the picture I want to be remembered by, heedless of the fact that his press agent was listening...
...detachment of police, behind which marched James J. Davis, U. S. Secretary of Labor, with the student band of Mooseheart behind them, 18,000 members of the Loyal Order of Moose, in fervent costumes, assembled for the grand parade when-Wumps, came the rain. It fell heavily. Heedless, the Moose began to march. The rain poured down their backs. They marched on. It wetted the women along the route; those who came to cheer remained to shiver; the Moosemen marched on. It soaked their hats, it trickled down their socks; a one-legged Moose from New Orleans, playing a trombone...
...painting was the exception: A white bear stands in the glare of a Paris prize ring. There is blood at his feet; he has just consummated upon a human bruiser, now unconscious, brutalities so magnificent that spectators of every sex, replete with ecstasy at the spectacle, slobber and clip, heedless of an ape that sits among them, scrutinizing with remote but kindly cynicism their delirious reversion to the bestial. "Hogarthian," said the critics. "Horrible," said the quality...
...picture is primarily notable for the appearance over the Hollywood horizon of Constance Bennett, daughter of Richard Bennett. She shows much promise, fertile grace and panomimic adaptability. The burden of the story is well sustained on the screen, to wit, that if you but scratch the brass of the heedless young brood of today, you'll find true gold...