Word: thoughtlessness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
Critical observers of the American educational scene have written volumes of comment, both harping and constructive. But the nub of their lengthy disquisitions was recently pointed out, all unwittingly, by a prominent education. His proud and thoughtless boast was roughly this, "the undergraduate of today covers the same ground as the Ph.D. of fifty years ago." He might well have added, for clarification, that in this process the undergraduate, like the Ph.D. candidate, is being prepared for worship in the great American Cathedral to Fact...
...years' cruise experience. She vouchsafed us several personal and unusually laudable confidences that have caused us to love, cherish and admire her as we have few, if any, before her. Not only does she neither drink nor smoke, but if given half a chance by a morbidly curious, thoughtless world she could, without half trying, win it completely. An innate sweetness and native charm amply justify the plea of a justly proud father, "Why can't she be loved for herself...