Word: wantoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Harold's teacher was unusually sensible. She realized that when he was on one of his wanton sprees he was "beside himself," beyond his own volition. Harold said that his head always "hurt" him. She took the boy to a psychoanalyst, who confessed that he could work no cure...
...attention as they saw her transformed from a querulous princess intrigued by a captive prophet into a voluptuous animal crying brutally for the love, the body, the life of Jochanaan. Her Dance of the Seven Veils was lascivious, her entreaties to Herod for the prophet's head brutal and wanton. At the cistern during Jochanaan's execution (unlike Mary Garden in the same role) she was all animal thirsting for blood, listening for death struggle sounds that did not come. When she raised the cloth on the silver platter to kiss the dead lips listeners sat in amazement...
Last night Clare Clairbert, Belgian coloratura soprano in her U. S. début, sang coolly, sweetly, well the wanton Violette in Verdi's once frowned-on La Traviata, opposite Beniamino Gigli's capable Alfred Germont...
...infant likes to express itself by making a noise. At an early age, a rattle is sufficient. Later on, much more ingenious methods as the tin horn or drum are resorted to, until wise parents are forced to restrain its wanton lust for noise, or it will become a public nuisance to everyone...