Word: thoughtlessly
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...thus falling in line with ministers, undertakers, hearse drivers, gravediggers. Said Cemetery Man Perkinson: "Most families desire privacy for the interment, but if a funeral is held on Sunday many visitors who have no personal interest leave their lots and hang around while the interment takes place, oftentimes making thoughtless remarks and generally taking away from the solemness of the interment. "The Police Department are in favor of this movement on account of traffic conditions. Funeral corteges on Sunday are many times as long as on weekdays, for many mourners who have nothing else to do follow to the cemetery...
...Masters children are not bad children; they are just thoughtless when it comes to paying their elders respect or attention. Portly Actor Mitchell has his hands full with them, trying to get them out of scrapes, listening to their shocking biological revelations, accepting their low regard for his intellect. The surprising thing about Fly Away Home is that none of these juvenile antics is anything but delightful, wholesome fun. Needless to say, it is the children who straighten out the adult triangle...
...lost his job, tried desperately to chisel in on some steady racket. Rent-collecting among small shopkeepers had given him valuable information about when and where they kept their money. Soon he was ''the brain guy" for a small gang of robbers. But Bill was no thoughtless criminal and his conscience and his fears died hard. As he got deeper into the meshes of a career in which life and success went ever more narrowly together, his increasing desperation gave him a boldness his brain told him would be his finish. Author Appel leaves him balancing...
...have arisen from the collective bargaining clause have caused deviations from the intended course. The wrong ideas which were incorporated in haste now stand out more clearly. Honest constructive criticism which will separate the wheat from the chaff is needed to set the NRA buck on its course. No thoughtless and prejudiced bombardment can help...
...business policy of an agrarian age continued into a machine age. Therefore, we must discover new methods of handling the economic condition of our country, and we must adopt a new monetary system. But we must not be carried into unlimited inflation, and other unsafe or quack methods, by thoughtless excitement. The 'New Deal' offers us the necessary kind of monetary system, and the best possible solution to our present trouble. If we wish to save ourselves from a worse depression and from the terrors of uncontrolled inflation, we must get together behind the N.R.A. quickly,--within the next...