Word: wantoned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...profane and colorful newspaper show, "Front Page" and a not entirely successful fantasy, but a play like none other now in New York, "Serena Blandish", in which Ruth Gordon, A. E. Matthews and Constance Collier depict the languid game of love in Mayfair, seen by a singularly innocent young wanton. "Man's Estate" most recent of the Theatre Guild offerings, gives Margalo Gillmore and Earl Larimore a chance to thrash out the eternal question of a young man choosing between marriage and his life work...
...angry at the shameless city women!" thundered the pastor. "His eye is offended by their short skirts, from beneath which peeps the wanton whiteness of their limbs. God is not mocked with impunity! He has sent this piercing cold to make the city women feel His wrath and lengthen their skirts. That is why your vines are blighted my friends! . . . Let us now join in prayer. God's will be done...
Come brim the mug and in the wanton fire...
...week are very largely explained by the despair of the Kulaks at this new situation. They burnt fields and barns of State-grown grain. They murdered Communist workers who were teaching the peasants and proletarians-turned-farmers to grow bigger crops. Naturally their fury grew at times indiscriminate, inconsistent, wanton...
...before played a Shakespearian role though she rehearsed in Hamlet with E. H. Sothern in 1907. She devoted her talents in 1917 to the long continued spectacularities of Chu Chin Chow, wherein Ali Baba and his robbers concealed themselves at the Manhattan Opera House ; hers also was the somewhat wanton Shanghai Gesture...