Word: reckless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reckless British reviewer once observed in print that the Sitwells were "literary curiosities . . . whose energy and self-assurance pushed them into a position which their merits could not have won. . . . Oblivion has claimed them and they are remembered with kindly, if slightly cynical, smiles." The Sitwells promptly sued for libel, were awarded damages of ?350 each (TIME, March...
...excuse for violating . . . freedom of the press. . . . Vice Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk's Gazeta Ludowa was permitted to print only watered-down versions of the Peasant Party attack on Communist control. . . . Such restraints do not apply to the Communist organ Glos Ludu, which can fill its columns with reckless charges against Mikolajczyk. This journal's recent reference to Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg, Republican of Michigan, as 'a sworn and deserving follower and defender of Hitler' will give some measure of its madness...
Nude in Manhattan. Stieglitz played host to a reckless, determined band. In 1913, the modernists captured Manhattan's huge 69th Regiment Armory, stocked it with some 1,600 examples of French and U.S. modern art. They adopted a motto, "The New Spirit," and distributed thousands of buttons bearing the pine-tree flag of the American Revolution. Probably 250,000 people saw the "Armory Show," and for a good many the experience was horrifying. For a glimpse of Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase (see cut], they had to stand in line...
Home, Fido. In Pensacola, Fla., Navy Lieut. C. J. Sabel was indignant at being fined $12.50 for reckless driving. The chauffeur: his shirted and cravatted Great Dane...
Nevertheless, in marked contrast to his truculence towards businessmen only a few days before, Bowles showed a sweetly reasonable air. Then, he had stood up before the National Farmers Union in Topeka, Kans. and tonguelashed the "irresponsible, reckless, greedy organizations [who opposed price control] . . . the National Association of Manufacturers . . . the heads of the National Retail Dry Goods Association with all the phony propaganda . . . the real estate lobbies . . . the packers' lobby and textile lobby...