Word: rashly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last Thursday afternoon and Friday evening, a new guest conductor. He was Bruno Walter, of much reputation in Germany, where he conducts the Munich Opera. Walter is especially renowned as a conductor of Mozart. He directed the symphony in D of the Salzburg composer. It would not be too rash to state outright that it was the finest Mozart conducting to be heard in the world today. Walter very sensibly cut down the orchestra to eighteenth century propositions. He achieved an exquisite balance of tone. It was no case of the huge mass of modern strings drowning the small body...
...Rash villain, this night you will...
...strain. It is interesting to speculate on the adoption of similar policies by our "wide-awake" American press. The possibilities are limitless. Imagine the staid old "Evening Transcript" taking in washing, or that specialist in muck raking,--the "Boston Orifiamme"--offering to insure any of its subscribers so rash as to venture into Back Bay after dark...
...this reason the Chinese have refused to accept Japan's proposal to rash a decision by "direct negotiations". Such a controversy was necessarily a hindrance to any program towards mutual understanding at the Conference. Fortunately both China and Japan accepted the "got offices" of Mr. Hughes and Mr. Balfour in arranging a series of discussions of the matter in the presence of the American and British "observers". At the first of the conversations, the Japanese spokesman took advantage of the occasion in his speech of thanks to Mr. Hughes and Mr. Baleful to refer to the meetings as "direct negotiations...
...fiancee, Judy, has shifted her affections to Bryce Valentine, a poet, who, like many others of his calling, wanders about with his head in the clouds. Jim is rather amused at this state of affairs at first, but later rebukes the faithless Judy for her fickleness. She, in a rash moment, dares here former sweetheart to prevent her marriage to Bryce...