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WHAT ARE YEARS -Marianne Moore-Macmillan ($1.50). The most accomplished poetess in the English-speaking world today is Marianne Moore, a greying, mobile-faced, almost reckless spinster, born in St. Louis, Mo. in 1887. She graduated from Bryn Mawr in 1909. She was an assistant in the New York Public Library from 1921-25. In 1924 her book of poems Observations received the $2,000 Dial award; and for five uninterruptedly happy years thereafter she served on the learnedly esthetic Dial's editorial staff. Since the Dial's demise in 1929, Miss Moore has picked up a microscopic...
...committee has] all too often acted irresponsibly. . . Rash and reckless in a time of national danger. . . . The Dies Committee's definition of 'subversive' is so fantastic as to defy belief...
Japan stood at the edge of the world gambling table last week and watched to see if her reckless bet would...
...Pupils are taught the functions of banks, the dangers of reckless speculation...
...With reckless good will, the U.S. public annually buys, sends and throws in the wastebasket an estimated 30 million dollars worth of Christmas cards.* Among the few thousands that don't go regularly into wastebaskets-just sometimes-are reproductions of art. The demand for Christmas cards done by artists has resulted in a growing business (about $500,000 in 1940). Today many a U.S. artist, selling up to 50,000 cards at a 10% royalty, makes a considerable part of his annual income at Christmas...