Word: wantoned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chanced to be in the riotous vicinity. In thus abandoning themselves to drunken joy have the celebrants been fulfilling a traditional rite? If so, such tradition should be stopped in the name of the law if not of morality. For those future leaders in the republic thus to be wanton law-breakers is bad practice. They have shown that they are able to do it, and are; therefore, as smart as the folks who dispense their home brew. Freshmen have more than done justice to themselves in that respect. But the burning question--the terrible question that confronts the scores...
...authority, to have led Germany into the war. It may at least be urged that it was this attitude of mind which furnished the backing for the attempt to take advantage by war of the situation in Europe, for invading Belgium in violation of the Treaty, and for the wanton destruction of the means of recuperation in France. If it be true that the Great War was a natural result of the principle that there is no moral obligation superior to the national interest, then the blame for the ghastly suffering endured, and for all that has been suffered since...
...offices of the Department, the extended list of its illegal practices compiled by such lawyers as Zachariah Chafee, Felix Frankfurter, and Dean Pound of the Law School, cannot fail to arouse the suspicion that "where there is smoke there is fire". Specifically, the Department is charged with wanton destruction of property; arrest without warrant; illegal imprisonment without trial; cruelty, torture, and "third-degree" methods--all employed against aliens and persons of foreign birth who are not cognizant of their rights under the American law. In particular, as regards the Sacco-Vanzetti case, the Department stands accused of gaining a conviction...
Just as the royal order was never rescinded, so has the ancient command of erstwhile days become lodged in the realm of perpetual watchful waking. Those who cherish a generous hope that succeeding generations may be spared the matutinal proclamation--abandon such wanton waste of brain energy! For as long as royal decrees survive, and until the initiative spirit of the outside world has penetrated the venerable customs of antiquity, the inane din will continue to destroy precious Senior slumber...
France, on the other hand, desires the economic prostration of her late foe. She fears the military and economic potentiality of a prosperous Germany and is bound not to see it recover more quickly than she herself is able to do. She has a huge bill for wanton destruction, for insult and outrage, that she wants to have settled to the last centime. It matters not whether Germany can pay. If not, so much the worse for Germany. Consequently France has heretofore refused to give up one iota of her demands...