Word: wantoned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...After so wanton a scurrility the arrest of Editor Maresch was inevitable: but he gave further provocation by declaring: "The efficiency of the police of Prague would be increased if each policeman took an occasional nip of spirits...
...does not appear that Mr. Boyd is trying to jazz up his critical reputation by mere wanton attacks upon the traditional esteem in which such worthies as Milton, Dickens and Poe are held. He merely points out that to the sane man the theme of "Paradise Lost" is so much moral and cosmic spinach, and that since Milton selected this subject because it was what he regarded as literal truth, not fiction, the poem, for all its beauties, smacks somewhat of futility, as must any thesis as devoid of any slightest biological probability. Mr. Boyd merely remarks that...
...Lampoon is ever read till its pictures are exhausted. The poem about the goldfish belonging to the old lady of "singularly wanton frame of mind" is evidently the work of a writer who can do still better. The ballad of the Rotunda pleases by reason of the popuarity of its subject, but no traffic sergeant in Cambridge, Mass., says "wolking" or "goil"--never...
...original inscription-the one that is now to be placed on the building-was approved by the late Desire Cardinal Mercier, who witnessed what has been described as the wanton burning of the Library with its great treasure of books...
Creeps in half wanton, half asleep...