Word: wantonly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...write their librettos in Italian. The Caruso of the period was the Italian eunuch-Francesco Bernardi Senesino, whose misfortunate voice earned fabulous sums at London's Royal Academy of Music. Lustier London wits like Henry Fielding began poking fun at this artificial art, inveighed against London's "wanton, affected fondness for foreign musick," with its "squeaking recitatives, paltry Eunuchs . . . and trills of insignificant, outlandish vowels...
...arms. . . . The people and Government of Finland have a long honorable and wholly peaceful record which has won for them the respect and warm regard of the people and the Government of the United States." Called his strongest statement denouncing the policy of conquest and his strongest denunciation of "wanton disregard of law," it went beyond his appeals for peace when Hitler invaded Poland...
...said that Germany would probably do nothing about Russia's wanton act, although the high officials in military, circles were surely "boiling with rage." Finland is of great military importance to Russia because in case of a war with another European country, the enemy might use Finland as a possession into the Soviet republic, or else they will make a protectorate of her. Of the two I think they will do the latter, because although the military significance is the same either way, the other Scandinavian states will be much less alarmed if Russia does base on which to land...
...most startling aspect of Harvard's decision is the frailty of its excuse. Browder has been indicted but has not been convicted, and it is still American doctrine that a man is innocent until proved guilty. The reverse assumption is as alien to basic American concepts as the wanton attack on the participants in the Foster meeting. The most refreshing contrast to this Cambridge ban is the editorial criticism levelled by the Harvard Crimson against the university authorities. What the Communists say these days will probably win them few converts. But the kind of intolerance to which Harvard has given...
...that time humanitarians were thoroughly aroused. In Boston, State Senator George Krapf filed a bill ordering the State Conservation Department to "preserve the fish from cruel and wanton consumption." Meanwhile Robert F. Sellar, president of Boston's Animal Rescue League, threatened to send agents to arrest goldfish swallowers if college authorities did not stop it. Said he: "This is not a subject for levity. I hesitate to bring such a matter to court, but we won't sidestep the issue. There have been too many complaints...