Word: wilfullness
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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...
The Indians called the region the "Dark and Bloody Ground" because the Cherokees and Iroquois almost wiped each other out fighting for its possession. Toward the end of the last century the primitive descendants of white settlers made it another "Dark and Bloody Ground" with their feuds. Chief feuding clans...
Any one who dares republish the charges of Ruth Hanna McCormick, Republican senatorial nominee in Illinois, against the Senate Slush Fund Committee may be prosecuted for "wilful and malicious libel." Notice to that effect was served last week upon the Press by Senator Gerald Prentice Nye of North Dakota, the...
At the time of the Battles of Messines (1917) Sassoon was in England recuperating from his wound. He had begun to be fed up with the War, finally decided he ought to do something about it. He wrote a formal statement of his refusal to return to the front (although...