Word: rashness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That irrepressible Parisien, M. Louis Dolgara, smart critic, minor poet, submitted on a wager, last week, to an horrific sentence which he has often passed on other poets: "They ought to be thrown to the lions." At Le Cirque, de Paris rash Poet Dolgara entered a cage replete with mangy kings of beastdom and sat down to read selections from his poems. He declaimed for half an hour. The weary lions yawned, then dozed, then slept. Triumphant, impertinent Louis Dolgara emerged to jest: "My fame shall be greater than Daniel's! My work has stood trial by lions...
...president of Mexico ever dared to try to realize these constitutional ideals until the rise of Señor Calles. His bold, perhaps rash, leadership spurred the Mexican Congress to enforce the Constitution of 1917 for the first time (TIME, Jan. 25, 1926), by passing laws which foreign interests in Mexico found "retroactively confiscatory" of their titles to Mexican lands and oil. Equally bold to the point of rashness has been Señor Calles' enforcement of the anti-religious clauses of the Constitution (TIME, Feb. 22, 1926, et seq.). Indeed, for the past two years foreign investors...
Banqueters looked at each other with amazement and terror. "Beedy is rash and foolish," said several. Others cried: "Beedy is right!" All agreed that his remarks, as transmitted through many a radio set into many a cozy sitting room, would rouse wide comment of approval or annoyance. Next morning they asked their friends who had been "listening in" what reaction Mr. Beedy's words had aroused. "What did he talk about?" said the friends. Banqueters soon learned that, considering his remarks too controversial for radio consumption, Christopher Bohnsack, director of WNYC, Manhattan municipal radio station, had turned a switch...
...four-hour affray at Telpaneca, 140 guerrillasš under General Salgado, armed with machine guns and high explosive bombs, attacked a garrison of 20 marines and 20 of the Guardia Nacional. One marine was killed and one mortally wounded; but upon the field of battle the rash guerrillas left 20 dead, carted off 50 wounded, retired into their strongholds...
Other Jerdanowitsches were bequeathed to the world. One showed a sprinkling of eyes against a dark background gashed by zigzag lightning flashes. To the uninitiated it looks like rash on a hairless dog. La Revue Moderne of June 30, 1927, grew ecstatic over this one, wrote about "this strange artist's inspirational paintings," recounted his troubled biography. Another of his inspirations was a woman kneeling before a totem pole in the Polar regions, its title "Adoration...