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Word: wantoned (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Minister of Education Stefan Raditch, obstreperous leader of the Croat Opposition, called by his enemies "the political ape-clown" (TIME, Oct. 25), sought once more to disrupt the Cabinet of Premier Uzunovitch last week by a wanton flamboyance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: Foul Means | 11/22/1926 | See Source »

...opulent California; her father, the great Kajetan, fiery master of the piano, a sort of Pietro Mascagni of fiction, with huge handfuls of blue-black hair and the hot blood of Italy's vine-clad valleys. Elizabeth Sinclair died soon after Adrienne was born; Kajetan, like a wanton Ulysses, had left for other shores. In Laguna Vista, California, a delicious world began to unfold itself to Adrienne . . . bronzed turkeys leapt at pungent, low-hanging figs . . . bronzed Mammy chanted of great green forests with scarlet birds and swinging animals . . . enchanted cream-colored people looked down from gilded frames within...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Non-Fiction | 10/11/1926 | See Source »

...cool their raging Thirst, or quench their wanton Fire...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rare Poem of 1718 by Unknown Author Describes Revels of Old-Time Seniors at Commencement | 10/11/1926 | See Source »

...Sheridan scratching his wig for the fourth act of The School for Scandal; George III and Queen Charlotte reading their favorite divines under the lindens at Kew; and Perdita, fluffed in swan's-down, waiting for the flushed royal moron who brought her low; Perdita, at last a wanton, having her final fling in a tiffany petticoat at the mildly curious court of Marie Antoinette. Danger's Lover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Heralds | 8/9/1926 | See Source »

...artists remind one of Baalam and his ass. For once more may we say. "And the Lord opened the month of the ass." But no, we cannot lay as the door of the Almighty such a gross, barbarons, wanton picture capable of origin only in the brain of a moron. For if Lampy can find no other material but scorn of the Jewish students in the college and the aspirations and religious ideals of the Jewish race, then it is quite easy to understand the general attitude towards the publication. B. Wantman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lampy Rebuked | 6/17/1926 | See Source »

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