Word: wantoned
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Half-Wanton Wagner...
...hands of "the richest man in Massachusetts" lie the lives of two Radicals. On this man who has expressed his "thorough belief" in capital punishment as "the only thing to check wanton crimes of violence" rests such hope of pardon as two men may have who are condemned to be electrocuted for murder. Believing that trial judges should be "no mere moderators or referees," but should "guide and control" inquiries, he is now asked, in effect, to reverse a judicial decision when such a reversal will be universally interpreted as reflecting upon a member of the Massachusetts judiciary. For only...
...likes a wanton trick...
...that the young ladies at Radcliffe don't wear fetching rigs--ah no, no indeed. There are few more charming sights than to see them flooding into the Cooperative at dusk, trim in their little middies and albeit laughing gaily and swinging their green bags over their shouldrs in wanton manner. But the Post's Fashion Editor or Editress or what you have says that "Radcliffe girls have no incentive to dress smartly, since Harvard men insist on being the most slovenly and 'un-pressed' college men in the country." This bit of libel received intelligent and succinct comment from...
...After five days of this wanton decapitation General Li Pao-chang posted up a bland proclamation: "I am touched by the numerous executions by my subordinates. They were prompted thereto by my orders to execute on the spot, without question and without trial. This order I now rescind...