Word: recklessness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...general election held, Senator Lodge and his followers would quickly discover that their long-winded orations and demagogic platitudes have not convinced the American people of the necessity of remaining at war with Germany while the rest of the world is enjoying the fruits of peace. Carried away by reckless partizan spite and vindictive hatred of Woodrow Wilson and all his works, the Republican side of the Senate succeeded in so emasculating the Treaty that the Democrats could in honor do nothing except vote for its rejection. The efforts at compromise made by the Administration forces met a stone wall...
...overseas correspondent of the New York Times declared in a recent news dispatch to that paper that "Bolshevism . . . . is the revengeful shadow of reckless modern materialism." Surely this definition by one who is in close touch with the movement and its leaders has its lesson for those who are working frantically to stay the onward course of this anarchic engine of destruction. Their naive attempts to decapitate a beast of this nature by military imprisonment and misdirected propaganda results only in three heads springing up where one grew before. To rid society of the menace of Bolshevism, we must strike...
...will allow him when he says that in reconstructing education the classics must not be forgotten. "After all," he says, "idealism is the only practical thing." It is in humanizing, in leavening human society, then, that we can overcome those forces which, shooting up from the soil of a "reckless" materialism, work adversely to the finer and nobler aspirations of human society. If we are to choose between leaven and dynamite in reconstructing civilization, by all means let it be the former...
...example to the entire country. Harvard's lead has been followed by other communities in the past. There is no reason to believe that our move to save fuel will be merely a local one. We need not fear that we shall become an oasis in a reckless coal-using nation...
Then comes another "war" story--with nothing in it about warfare; then a poem about "the 'pyrus' of the Nile" (we take this to be some new-fangled allegory on those famous banks); then another poem about "our reckless youth," as brilliant as the dullest of the dull spots in a certain older poet; and then a one-act play which with twice as much dramatic spirit would have almost half enough for half...