Word: reckless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...general consensus of opinion indicates that the recent expansion in production and distribution has reached its peak. Nevertheless, previous fears that this expansion would broaden into a reckless and unsound speculative movement are less keenly felt. The principal markets seem to have attained an equilibrium, and the question now is, whether present industrial and mercantile activity can be maintained throughout the year...
Irvin S. Cobb: " I boarded a taxi in Manhattan, and was taken on such a wild ride that I finally had the chauffeur arrested for reckless driving. He got 15 days in the workhouse and I got a bad scare...
...bandy-legged and lame of one foot; his shoulders were crooked and contracted towards his chest; his head was peaked towards the top and then wool was scattered over it. . . . And on this occasion, shouting out shrillly, he uttered bitter taunts."-That is the description of Theristes, "reckless babbler" of Homer's Iliad...
...Cuban banking system which former Governor Harding of the Federal Reserve Board now reports to be solidly established, will undoubtedly act as a quieting oil on the troublous state of Cuba's finances. In its balmier days the National Bank of Cuba was a fast and reckless lender, but its prodigality, coupled with the damage wrought by the come-and-go governments, finally resulted in its failure. Now, however, under a system modelled after the Federal Reserve and put into operation by Americans, the rejuvenated Cuban bank should be so firmly set on a financial rock-bed that none...
During the Napoleonic wars, hardly any one in France ever spoke of Marshal Ney without calling him "the bravest of the brave." His gay reckless daring appealed to the people; they honored him with this epithet. Nowadays we do not speak of our generals in such terms. They fight by telephone, miles behind the line. We think of them, therefore, as resourceful, far-sighted, skilful, but as brave--almost never...