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Word: wantoned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...score of sonnets, until the Queen summoned him to Whitehall. Chains of office, jewelled Garter, sad embassy to the Queen of Scots, but from the bitter Polish Wars Elizabeth detained her darling. Her old heart broke when in a mirror she watched him make merry with a court wanton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Breeches to Crinolines | 10/22/1928 | See Source »

...model of uprightness and humanity. . . . Zlin, the Bat'a Shoe City, is a second Detroit, but a Detroit with low wages. . . . Bat'a speeds up his workers to greater and yet greater output . . . shameless exploitation . . . lower wages than in other Czechoslovakian shoe factories . . . wanton exploitation of the workers, mostly young men and women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CZECHOSLOVAKIA: Bat'a | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

...outnoised by his myriad irrelevant themes. If he has any "fixed rules," they are well camouflaged in a medley of deliriously discordant, rarely harmonious, characters-famous Artist Bidlake whose voluptuous youth has reluctantly passed into caustic Rabelaisian senility; his writer-son who flings aside a reproachful mistress for the wanton daughter of a musty scientist; a suave sadist who bullies, tortures, kills, for the sheer thrill of it; an editor-publisher, bitterly caricatured, who fleeces his authors, but shows his mistress an almost inhuman tenderness; a conversational philosopher who is said to be the author's particular mouthpiece...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Medley | 10/8/1928 | See Source »

...Bronx Zoo, New York, vandals last week committed wanton depredations upon the caged beasts there. They shot the only Arabian Dorcas gazelle in captivity, a frail and beautiful animal. They threw stones at the only shoebill heron in the U. S. until they smashed its bill so badly that it could not eat and could scarcely breathe. They threw more stones at the sea lion until they blinded one of its eyes. Weirdest of the crimes was the dark attempt of a man to pull a cobra from its glass case by means of a cane and to carry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Zoo Vandals | 9/10/1928 | See Source »

...most wanton insult to Japan since the American exclusion of Japanese immigrants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Geisha v. Fourteen | 7/16/1928 | See Source »

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