Word: rashly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Western statesmen had already made an industrious study of Shakespeare and borrowed, deliberately or unconsciously, some of the remarkable economic notions so eloquently preached by Jack Cade, as reported in the second part of King Henry the Sixth, Vowing that there should be reform in the land, he made rash promises of what he would do when he came into power--"There shall be in England seven half-penny leaves sold for a penny; the three-hooped pot shall have ten hoops; and I will make it a felony to drink small beer." Perhaps some of our elder statesmen would...
...every conceivable honor, all possible emoluments heaped on him. He became Prime Minister, was even made Chancellor of Oxford. He could do no wrong. Once out shooting (being a General, not a sniper) "he shot a dog, then a keeper, and finally an aged cottager who had been rash enough to do her washing near an open window." When the victim cried to her mistress that she was wounded: "My good woman," she replied, "this ought to be the proudest moment of your life. You have had the distinction of being shot by the great Duke of Wellington...
...Church of England was on the side of the National Government, indiscreetly so. Village parsons, safe in their obscurity, were not more rash in dragging the Church into politics than the Rt. Rev. and Rt. Hon. Arthur Foley Winnington Ingram, Bishop of London. Knowing and hoping that his words would carry weight all over England, he warned the London Diocesan Congress thus: "The credit of the country is so much shaken that if the verdict of the country goes wrong . . . the pound will fall to five shillings within 24 hours, to a shilling within a week and to a penny...
Seven hundred years ago a king of England was rash enough to offer his kingdom for a horse, but conditions being what they were, no one took the offer. Now should he offer a similar trade considering the current rate of exchange in kingdoms, he might approximate the value in a second-hand bicycle. Or what have...
...been treating a St. Vitus boy with sedative drugs, the usual remedy. In this case the drug aggravated the "dancing" spells. But through misunderstanding the child continued to receive the drugs, which were as mild poison to him. After two weeks he broke out with a rash. His fever climbed intermittently as high as 106.4° When Dr. Sutton cured the boy of his fever, she noted that his St. Vitus's Dance was gone...