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Born for war, Mosby fared far less famously in peace. He served seven years as U.S. Consul at Hong Kong, returned to enjoy a modest success in the North as author and lecturer. But "the reckless abandon with which he attacked and galloped away as a Partisan could not be repeated as a citizen." Sunk in irascible senility, he died at Washington in 1916, aged 82, his glory all but forgotten...
...Fund, in effect, is merely a shock absorber. It can neither make rough roads smooth nor compensate for reckless driv ing. None of the delegates at Bretton Woods believed that it would solve the problem of getting payment for U.S. goods if the U.S. tries to export goods while it blocks imports by high tariffs. But believing that the roads are certain to be rough, the delegates felt there was all the more need for shock absorbers-to save the whole world from being jarred by every thank-you-ma'am that each nation hits...
Gloomiest observer was the Federal Home Loan Bank Administration. Over & over again during the past two years FHLB Commissioner John H. Fahey has warned that every type of financial insti tution has been making "reckless" loans, that the "unsound wartime realty boom" could have but one end: a postwar wave of foreclosures that might make the last depression look like a sideshow...
Courts martial voted criminals' penalties for careless, crackpot boys; still there was reckless flying. Probably there was no universal cure for the problem children whom the Army calls hedgehoppers, the Navy flat-hatters...
...Moore never knew the wild, reckless, intoxicated efforts her friendship put them to. Dr. Aziz happily spent all his money, the resources of a lifetime, and risked his neck repeatedly, merely to take his English friends on a picnic. One of the most vividly imagined people in English fiction, normal and matter-of-fact as anybody's grandmother, Mrs. Moore set a large and strategic portion of the Empire on edge merely by being herself in an unbelievably different world...