Word: wisp
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Octopus. There were two detectives, Mr. Dempsey and Mr. Kelly. They could not refuse a wisp of a girl who asked them to investigate a certain Long Island lighthouse wherein people were frequently murdered. On discovering a painter in the lighthouse, Mr. Dempsey tells Mr. Kelly to find the painter's pallet. Whereupon Mr. Kelly tells the painter to open his mouth, but it is Mr. Dempsey who announces that all painters have weasels. Then lights blink, doors swing, screams are screamed-and people appear, one by one, a shaggy seadog with a hook for a hand, a chirping...
...Rear Admiral, in his mad will-o wisp game with this long-dead Smith, resorted to various attempts to find the latter's book. After advertising without result in the query columns of the Boston Evening Transcript, he learned that the Library of Congress had no record of it, nor had the British Museum or any of the public libraries of the United States...
...vault. On the rim of the surrounding natural amphitheatre, the crowd watched the wisp of smoke until nightfall...
...lovely lady had not heard. She was watching the highest of all the flames, the streaking blue wisp like a hand, never reaching ever trying...."Created a book" she went on deftly. "And I am happy to have you all here to look at it, bless it. For you are wise men--and the book is mine. My husband, you see--my husband does not understand. He is not wise; he is only a husband. And he thinks that the book should be at least partly, his...It is not. It is mine, mine and God's." She extended...
Sparrows. Mary Pickford is back in one of her twelve-year-old ragamuffin roles. This time she is little "Mama Mollie," that maternal wisp of a girl who battles for a tribe of smudgy-faced, curly-haired, innocent-eyed orphans against the cruelty of one Grimes, keeper of a baby farm in ' the swampy southlands. Mr. Grimes has a half-witted wife, and belongs to the Charles Dickens-school of characters...