Word: recklessness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pupils are taught the functions of banks, the dangers of reckless speculation...
...With reckless good will, the U.S. public annually buys, sends and throws in the wastebasket an estimated 30 million dollars worth of Christmas cards.* Among the few thousands that don't go regularly into wastebaskets-just sometimes-are reproductions of art. The demand for Christmas cards done by artists has resulted in a growing business (about $500,000 in 1940). Today many a U.S. artist, selling up to 50,000 cards at a 10% royalty, makes a considerable part of his annual income at Christmas...
Actor Evans always holds the stage; he does not always portray his part. His Macbeth at times has a tortured imagination and reckless cruelty, but never a great warrior's strength or a tragic hero's stature. Evans has the instinct of a reciter, a soloist, reaching out with vocal magnetism to the audience rather than working in with his fellow actors on the stage. He doesn't, for example, talk to the murderers of Banquo; the murderers simply seem to be there so that he can talk. He brings more to the play than...
Carried to an abhorrent extreme, the revenge peace would mean the complete "liquidation" of the German state, as Dr. Earnest A. Hooton advocated in a speech at the University of Michigan last Friday. Such reckless statements are welcome to Dr. Goebbels, who undoubtedly considers them the best possible propaganda for uniting the Germans in a fight to the death. Hitler has stated that defeat would mean the utter destruction of the German state; point eight, far from flatly denying that charge, hints that Hitler was right. Wilson's promise of fair and equal treatment morally disarmed the Kaiser and hastened...
Exactly why A.T. & T. stockholders were so reckless was a Wall Street mystery. Many of them ignored the letter sent with the bulky, legally worded prospectus, got no "job-up" letter to enlighten them (something A.T. & T. is neither obliged nor forbidden to do). Another reason was plain carelessness. The rights expired on the Labor Day weekend, when many a shareholder was more interested in golf than gilt-edged bonds...