Word: wilfullness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Seattle strongly favors municipal ownership of public utilities. It operates its own electric power and light plants, its own street railway system. For 20 years James Delmage Ross, onetime Yukon gold rusher, has served as Superintendent of City Light. A stout advocate of public ownership, he has fought many a...
Petty thieveries, unintentional borrowing, wilful destruction of valuable portraits, fraudulent representation of works of art of Fogg, a racket of passing worthless checks on parents and friends of Harvard students, and the recently exposed racket of stealing and selling fine books from many libraries, Widener included; such is the lot...
Said the Commission: "In making this statement nothing new is added to the present law of the Church. . . . The present Canon 43 and the Marriage Service of the Church both assume that marriage may be declared null and void. . . . The door for remarriage of divorced persons is by no means...
His friends said this was a fine demonstration of his courageous independence. His critics accused him of wilful defiance of popular sentiment as expressed by Congress, of trying to beat the veto record of Grover Cleveland.†
Publishers Pulitzer and Scripps were both tall men, both bearded, both wilful and autocratic. Each died on his yacht (Scripps in Monrovia Bay, Africa, five years ago this month). There the similarity ends. Scripps was a book-binder's 13th child. After public schooling and farm life in Rushville...