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Word: wilfullness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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The caravan of the lush, black Queen of Sheba crawled down 3,000 years ago from the mountains of what is now Abyssinia and made for Jerusalem's plateau. The wilful Queen had a fancy to prove the great King Solomon "with hard questions." Legend tells how Solomon fed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ABYSSINIA: Shcba to Jerusalem | 10/9/1933 | See Source »

Britain, off gold since 1931, loudly feared the loss of her tremendous export trade advantage over the U. S. as the gap between the pound and the dollar quickly narrowed. To many a Londoner the President's action looked like an attempt to horsewhip Britain into line for some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Receiving the World | 5/1/1933 | See Source »

¶ To Janet Allen Walker's divorce suit against New York's onetime Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker (TIME, March 20): general denial of the "wilful desertion" charge, by Walker's Miami (Fla.) lawyer.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 27, 1933 | 3/27/1933 | See Source »

Day after day, month after month, clouds of oily, aromatic smoke billow up from the dumps on which Brazil's Government continues to burn coffee in a frantic effort to support its price. Last week the Government announced that since June 1931 over 14 million bags (containing 132 Ib...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Smoke & Mirth | 3/13/1933 | See Source »

Because of the simplicity of the play, a good deal of old-fashioned proverbialism is expressed with considerable force, but nowhere does the play flatter itself into searching after Truth. The weak and henpecked husband, and the wilful, self-seeking, and unattractive wife and elder daughter are all foiled in...

Author: By J. C. R., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 12/10/1932 | See Source »

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