Word: thoughtlessness
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...since she wrote it while recovering from a nervous breakdown, the audience is given to understand that that explains everything, for anything may happen in a nervous breakdown. Then, when the author has firmly established the nervous breakdown, the successful play, the handsome young nerve specialist, and the thoughtless young lady, in stalks mental telepathy. It comes in in the person of the mother of young playwright. She insinuates in no uncertain terms that the play is a steal...
What is needed at the moment is a new sense of balance and proportion. To represent these two important phases of college life in an unreal antagonism was the work of the thoughtless person who mailed the cards and has successfully hidden behind his anonymity...
...been told that, if the Maine trustees accepted his resignation, he might succeed no less a person than the late Marion LeRoy Burton, as President of the University of Michigan. A man of less lively principles might have glossed over any criticisms he entertained for his old, smaller position, thoughtless of anything but his great advancement...
TIME agrees with Mr. Armstrong that a characterization of the "trade" of the Marines as "mud and alcohol" is unfair. TIME'S dramatic critic, straining inadvisedly for epigram, became thoughtless, careless, callous. No offence was intended. But, since an offence was committed, an apology is herewith tendered...
...dramatic critic thoughtless, careless, callous...