Word: rashness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...grandfather, the ex-sea captain Magellan Fanning, in St. Martin's Manor, the home on the end of Long Island that has belonged to the Fannings since the reign of King Charles II?the memory of a shipwreck that occurred more than ten years before the story begins?a rash debt undischarged?the narration of the tragic love story of another Cynthia Fanning and young Pedro da Gama that was acted two centuries previous in Tangier: out of these materials Grant Overton has written "a tale of the miracle we call love and of the commonplace we call fate...
...advent of the Chicago Opera Company has, for the coming fortnight, laid desolate the concert halls of the city, for what manager would be rash enough during Boston's annual two weeks of opera, when musical Boston gravitates or is supposed to gravitate towards the Opera House, to offer concerts to a public already well on its way to satiety. Yet there are managers who will risk such concerts and by the same token there is even now an audience for them. Any doubts on this subject were dispelled last night when Mme. Eva Gauthier sang to an audience that...
...course it would be rash to say that prohibition will never be enforced. Perhaps if children, as President Coolidge suggests, are educated with the camel as their ideal, the land may one day be completely dried up. But with the Atlantic seaboard states drinking openly, the South reported to be drinking secretly, and all the farmers through the great dry West brewing their own applejack, the chances of successful enforcement are decidedly meager...
...perpetuate between the two republics. In the present statue she incorporates the same for her own people, along with a tangible evidence of her gratitude. Although there have been spats and misapprehensions between the two nations in the course of the past century, manifestations like this serve to eradicate rash judgements of the hour and show in its proper light the deep esteem which France and the United States have for each other...
...continue to take the same course there will this year be a reduplication of a situation that has become intolerable to every one interested and most of all to the crew men themselves." Here you are following a common journalistic policy of creating a whirlwind; but your effort is rash, uncalled for,--and certainly untimely. And furthermore is it not harmful to bewail the crew and the coach just before a race, instead of encouraging them...