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Word: wilfullness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Daughter Giulia was the old Doge's pet. Beautiful, wild and wilful, she was a magnificent horsewoman and used to spend $200,000 a year on her clothes. At one horse show she wore 17 different costumes. Newspapers once published her dress budget. It included 365 pairs of gloves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Doge of Elmhurst | 10/17/1932 | See Source »

An exhibition of these pictures is sensational. But sensational not only for its novelty, but because the "Surrealistes" often deliberately purpose to shock and surprise, so that you may be deprived of all preconceived standards open to new impressions. They intend to shock, as the safe-breaker might pare the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections and Critiques | 3/3/1932 | See Source »

Possessed is calculated to have a more disastrous effect than most upon morally malleable persons who witness it. Joan Crawford, again a brunette, impersonates the mistress of a thriving politician (Clark Gable). Rich, wilful and ingratiating, he gives her the trite benefits of illicit love-an apartment with glass doors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 7, 1931 | 12/7/1931 | See Source »

In almost all States laws have been enacted which make "wilful and malicious" slander a crime. Libel laws cover only written defamation, and few rumors about banks are ever printed. The original bill was drafted in 1907 by .gaunt, white-haired Thomas Bugard Paton, now gen- eral counsel for American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Rumor Monger | 9/7/1931 | See Source »

"Unless this campaign has been an act of unbelievable stupidity, it is primarily an attempt to perpetuate the reign of terror that the Kansas City Star is determined to maintain. ... I can prove that the Star has deliberately colored the news, has misrepresented the facts, and has indulged in wilful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: New Colyumist | 8/17/1931 | See Source »

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