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Word: thoughtlessness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...McIsaac and Smith fiasco in Economics A this year is also the result of carelessness. McIsaac and Smith was blithely approved after a cursory examination of its poorly-presented and disjointed contents. This thoughtless, incautious system of selecting texts cannot be pardoned. Men are being cheated out of both their time and their money, and whole courses are being ruined...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "ANY BOOK WILL DO" | 12/18/1936 | See Source »

...matinee idol does not have so easy a time with William Shakespeare as with Robert Sherwood Shocked and disappointed at Actor Howard's failure in the most ambitious and demanding male role on the English-speak ing stage, critics found the Howard Hamlet enervated, thoughtless, unilluminating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Howard's Hamlet | 11/23/1936 | See Source »

...splendid points of the program, the stab at the Congress that will drain its coffers painfully dry, the shaft directed at the sometime patriots who in return for a sacrifice to their country now demand a neutralizing and unnecessary sacrifice, these are lost in the superficial hilarity of the thoughtless abandon of youth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VETERANS OF FUTURE WARS | 3/18/1936 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Sentimental Institution | 7/29/1935 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 28, 1935 | 1/28/1935 | See Source »

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