Word: wilfullness
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Dutch courtiers know a story of how the little Princess made herself Queen of the Netherlands by a single bold stroke. Senile King Willem had been paying court to her elder sister, Princess Helen, who tactfully refused him on account of his age and reputation. At this crucial moment young...
ARACHNE-Eden Phillpotts-Macmillan ($2.25). Slangy conversation between classic Greeks suggests Erskine; muses conversant with the Charleston recall various recent fantasies; and the wilful woman who (almost) came to woeful end has been heard of before. She would have her profession, and she did excel at it, so the gods...
Upon less affable lips it would have been a tirade on Equality v. Privilege. It was not seriously a platform but an explosion under the platform. It sought to pledge the G. O. P. to a number of things which may, like many another "radical" plan, come about in time...
Student Nevin fulfilled Pennsylvania University's law school requirements at 18. For ten dreadful, discouraging years he "practiced," until accident confronted him with John Wanamaker, the Founder.*Lawyer Nevin was better at real estate than the Founder himself; when the owner died, Lawyer Nevin was made Vice President of...
Recently a Californian, one Bernick Linden, made the supreme sacrifice of the booster, and killed himself in Los Angeles, it may be said without irreverence, that others might live in San Diego. This was no deadly jest. For San Diego had a higher suicide rate than its rival, a higher...