Word: wisp
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Doubling around a wisp of fence, into the stretch at Belmont came a flying clot of horses. People in the Grand Stand scrambed up on the backs of the ramped benches; nonchalance deserted the idlers in front of the Turf Club; they shouted a name that shook itself out like a battle-banner in the grey autumnal air: "Crusader." He-Man O'War's bravest son, best three-year old of the year-was in front. At one flank humped a dark witch-rabbity horse named Mars; at the other a little brown three-year old, William Ziegler...
...footing of human acquaintanceship and common possession of intellectual interests. Not the least welcome feature of President Lowell's annual report was its decided indication that, building on the tutorial system as a foundation, the University is feeling its way toward this academic will-of-the-wisp...
Worried by war debts, harassed by war threats, France has followed the wisp of imperialism to bankruptcy. With an unbalanced budget and a hopelessly divided chamber of deputies, she has still to meet both foreign and domestic obligations. In contrast to this predieament. Germany, fat and complacent, has light taxes, a surplus in the treasury, and a stalde currency. It does not matter if moralists point out that she gained this position by repudiating her internal debis through inflation. The policy has been successful, therefore, according to the game of nations, it is justified...
...Term for an ass that keeps plodding because a wisp of hay which he never gets is held before his nose...
...achieved by the theatre and to accomplish his purpose Evreinov has emphasized a very subtle and at times tantalizing technique. While the play supposedly takes place in Russia actually it takes place somewhere on the border land between reality and unreality. It is a will-o'-the wisp sort of a play eluding our grasp just at the moment we attempt to put our finger on it. It is like the moon on a mackerel-sky with the white clouds rushing over it, now hiding it completely, now showing it to us through a transparent wraith-like veil...