Word: wilfullness
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Edward John Thompson is no name to place beside those of the great War propagandists. He is a poet, novelist, War veteran (Military Cross, mentioned in despatches), lecturer in Bengali at Oxford. He has written a history of India. He has served as an "educational missionary" at Bankura College, Bengal...
Belden V. Plimsoll, president of Inter-continental Adding Machine Co., was no ordinary father. He saw no reason why principles and practice which had brought him business success should not be applied to the ticklish task of bringing up his only daughter. Lollie was pretty and had reached years of...
Thus ended Inventor Claude's second effort at Matanzas Bay. He charged that bungling was due to "wilful disobedience of orders by a party or parties not in sympathy with the success of the experiment." Of his next attempt he said:
Mr. Curran, cocky and combative, refused to let his Dry inquisitors dismay him by their wilful interpretations of these facts. With redoubled pertness, he shot back at them: "The 18th Amendment will be repealed in about five years, I think. There are five sovereign States [New York, Maryland, Wisconsin, Montana...
Two years ago Moses Koenigsberg was chief of all Hearst feature and news services, world's widest read.* In 1927 he went to Geneva as one of five U.S. delegates to the League of Nations' first international conference of press experts. There he distinguished himself by helping to defeat a...