Word: wisp
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have read all their books. I know all their arguments. . . . I do not regard them as rational beings. ... If the lesser and immediate demands of labor could not be obtained from society as it is, it would be mere dreaming to preach and pursue the will-o'-the-wisp, a new society constructed from rainbow materials...
...follow the will o' the wisp of the dollar, according to Mr. Gay, leads the business man into a bog of profit and loss and his career sinks to a job. The engineer, as Colonel Wilgus explained, who thinks only in terms of girders and logarithms becomes a salaried adviser; the one who sees his building as a part of a city's progress becomes a leader. Emerson was speaking for this broader vision when he said that it was a fatal tendency of society to disintegrate into men in cubby-holes, each seeing the world through the narrow opening...
...Mourner", plays of last year, and the mother in "Slug", the first production of this year. She was one of the authors of "The 47 Varieties", a musical parody on the Workshop's productions given last year. Miss Halman wrote three plays produced by the Workshop: "Will o' the Wisp", "Rusted Stock", and "The Play Room". She will publish shortly a book of one-act plays called "Set the Stage for Eight...
...pocket magnifying glass of John Ruskin were placed on exhibition yesterday in the Treasure Room at Widener Library. They are gifts from the family of the late Professor Charles Eliot Norton '46. The exhibition also includes an etul case of Mrs. Thomas Carlyle, a locket containing a wisp of Thomas Carlyle's hair, a volume of original letters to Professor Norton from Longfellow, Lowell, and others, an original manuscript of John Leverett, President of the College from 1708 to 1724, and a contract of a grant of land to Sir Joseph Eyles bearing the Great Seal of Great Britain...
...Specs, and Ad Libs., how ye seek after "wizards that peep and that mutter." Runs the proverb, "Facile est descensu--" and the makers of the Tower of Babel could not reverse it. Brilliant as the new light may be, make sure that it is not a will o the wisp whose lustre increases with the approach of death...