Word: wantoned
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...Atrocity" pictures are those which, real and faked, were circulated for War-time propaganda?pictures of wanton violence done to noncombatants: bayonetted babes, women with breasts hacked off, desecrated churches...
...stood, spattered with stars and angels. Angels opened the triptych, disclosed three panels rudely painted to suggest a ship docked in the harbor of Alexandria, a temple doorway in Jerusalem, a grotto in a desert beyond the River Jordan. Over the half-hidden orchestra, Composer Respighi benignly presided while wanton Mary of Egypt, his latest creation, flaunted her trade on the water front, repented and finally crawled, a sainted harridan, into a grave dug by a lion in the middle of the desert...
...Most Wanton Election!" David Lloyd George, nominal Leader of the Liberal Party from which so many Liberals have split off, stormed from his sickbed last week: "This election is the most wanton and unpatriotic into which this country has ever been plunged!" (i. e. Scot MacDonald has broken and ruined the Welshman's party...
...three chief occasions for punishment were, in those days, absence from classes, noisy disorder (usually horn blowing), and riotous outbreaks which were often accompanied by drunkeness and the wanton destruction of property...
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...