Word: wilfullness
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Other commentators took greater care to avoid suggesting that the President had not stated an irrevocable decision, or that he might be even momentarily suspected of veiled deception, wilful obscurity.
The problem is no longer that of finding the Human Magnet but rather of cultivating a wilful pliability to Suggestion in the population. This may turn out to be an insurmountable difficulty for New Englanders who are proverbially negativistic and resistant to any outer voice, whether it be the Good...
"A little group of wilful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible." So said President Wilson of his Senate foes-most of them having been regular Republicans like the late Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, and a few having...
Princess Turandot. The English translation of the Russian translation of the Italian original by Carlo Gozzi, under the direction of Leo Bulgakov, becomes a beguiling bit of theatrical amusement. An Oriental Princess, the fable has it, would guard her ephemeral freedom from the male sex behind a hazard of riddles...
Herbert C. Hoover, Secretary of Commerce, found himself stripped of radio-broadcasting control by a ruling of Attorney General Sargent and by the failure of the 69th Congress to agree on either the Dill or White radio bills. He predicted "chaos in the air," and was not surprised last week...