Word: thoughtless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...produced. His first night was rather makeshift: hotel space was spare, and large, bald Wodehouse had to sleep on a couch. Next day he discovered he couldn't take his Peke into a restaurant with him. About those light-hearted broadcasts from Nazi Germany: they were just thoughtless mistakes. Mrs. Wodehouse explained defensively: "He just didn't realize." Wodehouse, bright enough when it comes to earning his living, said he was now four books ahead of himself, and the first would be out this month: "It's utterly removed from real life...
...H.A.A. has done it again. Harvard's Athletic Association still holds its triple crown for bumbling incompetence, thoughtless negligence, and sheer stupidity...
...remembered it (in his journal): "I had no vices but was thoughtless and pensive, fond of shooting, fishing and riding ... as active and agile as a buck." He married a girl named Lucy and opened' a general store in Henderson, Ky., which flopped from the first. Audubon had to go hunting to fill the cupboard...
...classicists who have been played have been badly man-handled. In all kindness, Spalding is just too old to handle the intricate rhythmical phraseology of Bach. And last Saturday, Koussevitzky gave a surprisingly careless and thoughtless performance of the Mozart Symphony in D Major ("Paris"). There was vehement distortion of dynamic effect in both Allegros; the Andantino last continuity through the effort to make it pretty...
...Charles Craig McGonegal (TIME, Feb. 14). When a crippled veteran is finally discharged from the Army, he has a life pension (e.g., $30 a month for a leg) and has usually begun to learn a trade. What General Kirk and his staff fear most is that oversolicitous or thoughtless civilians may undo their careful work...