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...stories, simpler in design, are quite as effective. There Are Smiles records the encounters of a smart young thing in her smart new roadster with Ben Collins, traffic policeman. He chides her for reckless driving; she smiles, gives him a lift to his home in the Bronx. In conversational bicker, pleasantly casual, she touches upon the man her father wants her to marry; he warns her to drive carefully "for that guy's sake"-and for his. Next morning the cop's newspaper tells of her- death in a motor accident. Says the cop to himself...
Fortunately for the Coast Guard, the pursued craft, found stranded and abandoned up the river, was a real rumrunner. Even so, the reckless rattle of Coast Guard bullets stirred afresh the anxiety of many a law-abiding yachtsman who had experienced the service's quick gunfire, its brusque raids, its salty backtalk. Protest after protest against officious bedevilment has been sent to the Coast Guard's squat red-brick headquarters in Washington. Invariably the Service has upheld its men for doing their duty...
...content to see my country and my people bled white for the benefit of other countries far more prosperous than ourselves. You are all just electioneering, just tub-thumping!" Impressively, on behalf of the entire Cabinet, a statement was read out, deploring Mr. Snowden's "wanton and reckless act," and affirming that "the Balfour Note is the foundation of the Government's policy." At this point political dopesters freely opined that Pixie Snowden's rashness would cost the Laborites whatever chance they have to win the approaching election. Though Conservatives and Liberals are as cats and dogs...
...turn out a Conservative Government which, he said, had hamstrung England's trade with Russia and provoked the U. S. by bunglesome handling of the Coolidge naval limitations proposal. From this the spellbinder swung through a long transition to the surprising statement that the Conservatives "made a foolish, reckless settlement of the British debt to America [in 1923] without waiting for an international settlement which would have wiped out all debts and started the world afresh...
...CRIMSON has criticised the happy earlessness of the University administration in its policy of releasing news. Time and again the authorities have shown themselves ignorant of publicity values, lax in their handling, and reckless of the consequences of inaccuracy and misrepresentation which are traceable directly to their sluggishness. When there is news to be given out officially, none is given; it is permitted to seep out through any one of many channels...