Word: wantonness
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...Chicago Hearstpaper members of the American Newspaper Guild went on strike because the Guild, a C. I. O. union of newspaper workers, accused the management of innumerable violations of contract. The Guild charged wholesale and wanton firing of Guildsmen whom the management said it let go for economy. So the Guild demanded that these employes be reinstated, and the management refused...
...Dining Halls management has often insisted that the amount of food thrown away is negligible. But the Food Committee found wanton waste all too common in the Halls. Incompetent cooking causes one dish after another, especially vegetables, to be returned to the kitchen un-tasted. There is no expert, full-time dietitian in charge of the menus. These are the main leaks in the pipeline from the market, where the Committee found that Harvard buys good food, to the gullets of House members. As a result, much of the food is unappetizing, and the board rates are so high that...
Mistresses & Spinsters. Why in every part of the world is the French woman generally rated high, whatever at times be the world's rating of French men? She comes elegant and plain, extravagant and thrifty, faithless and devoted, wanton and maternal-yet so do women in plenty of other lands. A good reason for her rating is that the French woman is unique in her talent for creating, either as love-object or as mistress of the home, enduring human relations of exceptional harmony and interest. In the main she contrives to satisfy-her lover, her husband, her children...
...tragic last act of Juno and the Paycock is spoiled by wanton melodrama. Too late, too violently, O'Casey pushes the son and daughter into the limelight. Their fate-not having the full force of the play behind it -seems manipulated, its effect on Juno mawkish. But it is proof of O'Casey's real power that his Paycock should remain comic from start to finish. The Paycock is a callous wastrel for whom O'Casey has only bitter scorn; but he is a born "character," and O'Casey lets him cut his capers without...
...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...