Word: rashly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thoughtful drama observers, who believe that to be healthy the Theatre should be sensitive to the times, predicted that Life's Too Short was the beginning of a long series of plays alert to problems of social justice but more fitted for popular consumption than last season's rash of "agitprop" (TIME, June...
...days earlier. Nine Representatives had marched in and resolutely told him that the discretion he desired, to declare an arms embargo against either of two warring nations was, in effect, the power to drag the U. S. into war, a power no prudent President would want and no rash President should have. Angered by such unaccustomed opposition, Franklin Roosevelt snapped that he could if he would put the U.S. into war in ten days. Thumping his desk, he thundered that he would not let Congress usurp his constitutional prerogatives...
...Hints that the masseur's name began with K. brought a rash of "Mr. K." headlines. A cable from Berlin, based on reports by Germany's Consul in Manhattan, revealed him as Herr Paul Kress who has taken out his first and applied for his second U. S. naturalization papers...
...following a rash of local strikes and street violence, the Times plant was bombed. Many were injured, 20 killed. "O, you anarchic scum," cried General Otis, "you cowardly murderers, you leeches upon honest labor, you midnight assassins!" Viewing the destruction of the building, in ruins save for a portion of wall where perched the Times eagle, a local poet named Drayton Pitts spontaneously declaimed...
...Disease in kidneys. When that work is done they will have reached the goal which Hippocrates set for physicians 2,300 years ago. Life, disease and death will be resolved into simple factors of chemistry and physics of cells and germs. This blood count, that temperature and a rash, for example, will definitely equal a sickness which physicians can prevent by cut & dried technique. Then Medicine will cease to be a fine art, will become an exact science...