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...this play both the leading man and lady are given exceptional chances to show their versatility. In the prologue Waltor Gilbert imitates a reckless youth and in subsequent scenes a settled man of forty. Similarly Ann Mason is called upon to distinguish between the characters of a mother and her daughter. These difficult assignments, however, are very well fulfilled, which helps to keep "The Faithful Heart" from repeating its New York failure...
...said if the present spirit be prolonged-the spirit of reckless strikes and fevered frivolities-financial control can never be withdrawn, because the increase in revenues cannot continue...
...growth of tax-exempt securities, which has resulted directly from the high rates of surtax, is at the same time encouraging extravagance and reckless expenditure on the part of local authorities...
...that we.were all guilty of the blackest treason to our God, our Emperor, our country." Coming on top of the statement: "... when millions of men, Russians, Frenchmen, Belgians, Englishmen, were giving up their lives in the cause of freedom, the aristocracy of the Russian capital was indulging in a reckless orgy . . ." it is a fairly conclusive condemnation of Russian aristocracy, notoriously self-indulgent...
...Weeks Reply. The Secretary of War, "trembling with rage," rushed with this attack to a Cabinet meeting. When he had cooled off he issued a statement edited at the White House: " Mr. Ford this morning issued a personal attack upon me. . . . His statement is filled with reckless assertions. It may be that Mr. Ford ... is not himself possessed of the full facts of the situation." He then explained: 1) that the Gorgas plant cost less than $5,000,000 of the hundred millions expended at Muscle Shoals; 2) that under the contract made by the Wilson Administration with the Alabama...