Word: recklessness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clock on the morning of Nov. 7, every stockmarketeer knew that the promised Hoover Market had arrived. Stocks opened 2 to 5 points above the close on Election eve, an advance which financial writers hailed as "sensational." It was a reckless and foolish squandering of a potent adjective. Last week, when the Hoover Market had attained truly "sensational" proportions, writers had no words to describe it. They had recourse to figures...
...gamut of his knaveries, but gives him where possible the benefit of the doubt. After all, Fisk died with a paltry million, while Gould left seventy millions, and Vanderbilt a hundred. If such figures are as nothing today, the balance is struck by bygone melodramatics of vulgar splendor and reckless abandon, recorded so readably in Jubilee...
Defeated, as the Reichstag settled to business last week, was a freak bill presented by Deputies of the extreme and reckless Right. Its essence: "Germany shall discontinue Dawes Plan payments and use the money to build an Army and Navy adequate for the Fatherland's defense...
They whispered that the King's recent European trip (TIME, Jan. 23-June 4) had been a ruinous, reckless extravagance, and that the Treasury's coffers are nigh to emptiness...
John Pierpont Morgan might well have said last week: "A reckless liar named Bernard F. Champayne, posing as my grandson, obtained $15,000 from Mrs. B. P. Fields of Ginter Park near Richmond, Va., and became engaged to her daughter. Liar Champayne was sentenced last week to serve ten years in a common jail...