Word: willfullness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Divorced. Sinclair Lewis, 56; by Dorothy Thompson, 47; on grounds of willful desertion in 1936; in Woodstock, Vt. The divorce was the second for each. Columnist Thompson received custody of Son Michael, 11. Writer Lewis was forbidden to remarry within two years without court permission.
Sued for Divorce. Sinclair Lewis, 56; by Dorothy Thompson, 47; in Woodstock, Vt.; grounds: willful desertion in 1936. They married in London in 1928, a year after she divorced Hungarian Writer Josef Bard, a month after Lewis was divorced by Writer Grace Hegger. Living apart for the last several years...
This tariff is one of the best examples of the idiocy of isolationism with which our entire history is replete. Small groups of willful men-the Borahs and the Johnsons-have never failed to pop up at critical times to sabotage a logical foreign policy, but our history as a...
After Meade and Benning, Mr. Engel's story still had eleven chapters to go. But he had already arrived at an angry conclusion. Said he: "The officers in the United States Army who ... are responsible for this willful, extravagant and outrageous waste of the taxpayers' money ought to...
Kane's last word was "rosebud." Thompson (William Alland), the newsreel reporter, spends two feverish weeks in interviewing five people. Thompson talks to Kane's trollopish second wife (Dorothy Comingore), whom he tried to make a singer, finally established in the castle. There she passed the years assembling...