Word: rashly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rash of dances has broken out anew after the ordeal of Mid-years. The Gold Coasters are giving their Valentine Ball tonight from 9 to 2 o'clock. Fees are $2.50 drag. $1.50 stag. Jack Marshard plays...
Every so often some precocity in pigtails mesmerizes a U. S. publisher into printing her verse creations. The resultant rash on the nation's body poetic generally passes away as soon as the publisher's advertising appropriation has been spent. Oh Millersville! is a collection of juvenilia that no American will want to see pass away...
Though the Province of Santa Fe broke out into a rash of angry rioting and gun fights, though the Ministry of Interior was swamped with protests, Castillo sat tight, the first round safely his. Ortiz, instead of sending a Federal interventor to insure an honest election as he did last March in Buenos Aires, sat tight too. If the Conservatives can repeat this week in the Mendoza elections, they will pick nearly enough electors to insure victory in 1943. If Ortiz lets them, the fight will be over...
...reception, Colonel Itsuo Ishimoto of the mission drank more Bols gin than was good for him, became attracted by the long curved creese of a Javanese prince. The creese is more than a sword to the Javanese; it is a sacred symbol, and if it is drawn rashly and without preliminary invocations, Javanese believe that misfortune overtakes the rash drawer. Colonel Ishimoto, without asking permission, drew out the creese and waved it about. A few days later he went to Bandung, collapsed with pernicious anemia, and died. Javanese natives were impressed...
...empty cupboards. Yet the aid of a country usually quick to relieve suffering wherever it may be has been held up by a remarkable amount of dissension and debate. There have been conflicting reports thick as snowflakes as to the seriousness of the food shortage; there have ben rash and hasty prophecies of the abuses and misdirection into which food relief would fall...