Word: recklessly
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...Congress' "punishing the rich" with higher income taxes which make investors turn to tax-free securities. Dashing from meeting to meeting he stopped to meet newshawks and make his announcement, commenting: "It seems to be in the air in the whole banking community that it is a reckless thing to continue to pay dividends...
...Stonington. Conn., fined $25 for reckless driving. Walter A. Shaw, student, last June paid with a check upon which he subsequently stopped payment. Stonington officials instituted search for Student Shaw. When they found him last week, Student Shaw had to pay his fine and the costs of finding...
...Discussing the nest of acanthus leaves round the fat figure 5 in the corners he writes: "No merest tyro in the draughting-room of a wallpaper plant that catered to the Wisconsin Scandinavian trade would be allowed to combine shapes in this brutal and reckless fashion." The 5 bothers him particularly. He reproduces its black bulk on one page followed for comparison by seven 55 from the fonts of celebrated designers. Overleaf is a little drawing of a fat harridan leaning against the Treasury's figure while a slender nymph stands by a modern 5 of Dwiggins design. Then...
...large red-haired British Columbian partner, Torchy Peden. Not satisfied with a point-lead over the Belgian team of Van Nevele and de Lille, McNamara and Peden stole a lap in the last ten minutes of the race and held it to the end. Behind the Belgians came the reckless French team of Letourner and Guim-bretiere, who, as is their custom, had been squabbling with each other throughout the race...
...Then, when Stribling tried to hold him with one of his peculiarly tenacious clinches, Schaaf cracked him on the jaw with four right uppercuts, dropped him with a left hook. Saved from a knockout by the bell, Stribling fought six more losing rounds, with exactly that kind of exciting, reckless courage which critics have accused him of lacking after fights which he has won. At the finish, with both eyes almost closed by bruises, Stribling saw Schaaf get a unanimous decision. Experts, picking Schaaf as the best heavyweight prospect of the winter, pictured an odd situation: Sharkey, if he beats...