Word: wantoned
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...trouble in showing Cleopatra as ''the shrewdest and most intelligent woman of her time." She roughed it with Caesar during their hard pressed military campaign, was a model of reserve as his mistress in Rome. With Antony she played the lavish wanton, outdid him in everything from drinking to horseplay. Deserted on the eve of bearing his twins, she greeted him three years later as though he had only been out for a walk. But her price was the old Pharaoh empire, his divorce from Octavia. This last move, says Ludwig, marked the point where her emotions began...
...been letdown enough, but in the second it seemed that Hemingway had definitely given over his precise eloquence to ignoble uses-that, carried away by his peculiar gifts, he had turned from the deeper study of the human tragedy to revel in the mere shock and suddenness of wanton killing. War was already too much in the air to make such an attitude agreeable. It was a time too of increasing political and economic strain, when the pressure was great, both from the Right and the Left, on every writer to stand and declare himself. Since he stubbornly refused...
...just about the ablest set of moves Chinese could possibly make to stir the moribund League to action, and stirring were the words of Dr. Wellington Koo, although he never once spoke of "war": "Intoxicated by his last conquest, the invader [Japan] is bent upon ruthless slaughter and wanton destruction. The lives of 450,000,000 people are at stake. . . . The Japanese forces invading Chinese territory show utter disregard for all the rules of international law. The law of morality gives place to violence and anarchy. . . . Civilization and the security of the world is in the balance...
...quickly snapped up by the opera. Her debut as Manon was a triumph of personality as well as art. The little Brazilian used her little voice so that every phrase told. She tossed her pretty head, fell in and out of love, made Massenet's shallow, adorable wanton come to life. In La Traviata she was a higher-minded harlot, pathetically resigning her love so as not to ruin him. She sang the difficult display-piece Sempre Libera with uncommon charm...
Ever since the start of Spain's Civil War the world press has been flooded with stories about the wanton destruction by both Rebels and Loyalists of Spain's important art treasures. Several U. S. correspondents in Madrid have now taken time off from reporting the siege to file the most complete reports yet made on the whereabouts of the art treasures of Madrid. Their conclusions: ¶ On Aug. i a committee known as the Junta of Requisition & Protection of Artistic Patrimony was organized to classify and protect Madrid's treasures. Head of the Junta...