Willet n. (Zool.) A large North American snipe (Symphemia semipalmata); called also pill-willet, will-willet, semipalmated tattler, or snipe, duck snipe, and stone curlew.
... session Mrs. Catt said that for twenty-eight years the Rev. Anna Howard Shaw had opened the national conventions with prayer and she asked that in memory of her the delegates rise and join in silent prayer. They did so and many were in tears. The Rev. Herbert L. Willet then offered the invocation. Mrs. Trout, president of the Illinois Suffrage Association, cordially welcomed the delegates to Chicago. The greeting from the Canadian Woman Suffrage Association was brought by its president, Dr. Margaret Gordon. Mrs. Catt made a gracious response and resigning the ... — The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume V • Ida Husted Harper
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