Word: rashly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stevenson, Andrew Lang, Thomas Hardy, George Moore and many a younger man. It was to Gosse that Swinburne divulged his famed outburst against Ralph Waldo Emerson, whose reported remarks had offended Swinburne. When Gosse learned that Swinburne had written to Emerson, he said: " 'I hope you said nothing rash.' 'Oh, no.' 'But what did you say?' I kept my temper. I preserved my equanimity.' 'Yes, but what did you say?' 'I called him,' replied Swinburne in his chanting voice, 'a wrinkled and toothless baboon who, first hoisted into...
Questioned as to the widespread concern over crime in this country, Professor Glueck emphasized the experimental nature of the new curriculum. "I should like to stress," he said, "that no rash promises to 'discover the cause of crime' are being made. The Institute of Criminal Laws known that the crime problem is one of the most complex of all social problems and that it is absurd to expect 'immediate results' from any effort in this field. The public have too long been led to false expectations, and too many patent medicines have been peddled in this field...
...distinguished career, an honor that few Frenchmen would refuse. On the other hand it would mean that Aristide Briand must retire from active politics at the age of 69 (Georges Clemenceau was a potent figure at 88) and at a time when the map of Europe is one great rash of international irritations for which the presence of peace loving Aristide Briand in the French Foreign Office has long been a soothing poultice. He promised last week to give his final choice 48 hours before election...
...Orleans physician announced that a rash which had appeared on Ethel Barrymore Colt, stage-touring with her mother Actress Ethel Barrymore, was digestive in origin, not measles...
...world's wheat crisis comes not so much from overproduction as underconsumption. It would be rash indeed to call for limitation of cultivation of cereals when in the world there are too many people poverty-stricken and grievously distressed. ... It is particularly fortunate that this conference is taking place in the calm political atmosphere of the moment...