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...spring the wanton lapwing gets himself another crest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Scientific Cupid | 9/16/1946 | See Source »

...accuse by the record that the management and stockholders of the bituminous-coal industry in a period of 14 years have through mismanagement and cupidity and wanton neglect made dead 28,000 mine workers . . . shattered the bodies of 1,004,000 miners. . . . We accuse . . . we accuse . . . we accuse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Moth & The Flame | 5/20/1946 | See Source »

...literally cast off all seven veils. New Yorkers had to settle for less because the late John Pierpont Morgan, a Met backer, had Salome banished from the repertory at the advice of his pastor. This annoyed Jeritza into singing a concert version of the opera, which was at least wanton enough to give New Yorkers a vivid idea what they were missing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Same Old Magic | 5/13/1946 | See Source »

...Zola? "Mismanagement, cupidity and wanton neglect . . . in a period of 14 years . . . have made dead 28,000 mineworkers. . . . We accuse that in the same period . . . management and stockholders . . . violently mangled, crushed and shattered the bodies of 1,004,000 mineworkers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: The Great Actor | 4/1/1946 | See Source »

With building after building, Wright had proved that it is possible to imitate nature's logic and economy, if not her wanton extravagance, in architecture. His latest proof, announced this month, is a tower laboratory for Johnson's Wax in Racine, Wis. Its 15-story lab is practically all window; all its heating, plumbing and servicing is done through a central mast, from which it is suspended, much like Buckminster Fuller's circular aluminum house (TIME, March 25). It will adjoin the office building Wright designed in 1938, which is held up by columns built like morning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Great Papa | 4/1/1946 | See Source »

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