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...likes a wanton trick...

Author: By D. G. G., | Title: THE CRIME | 3/30/1927 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 3/19/1927 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: At Shanghai | 3/7/1927 | See Source »

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 »

...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 »

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