Word: wisp
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pass on the question of its efficacy -has been found. The tragedy that follows the announcements of various alleged cures is little known except to the medical profession; sufferers in stages in which they could be helped by medical science, abandon treatment and follow the wills-of-the-wisp until the chances for recovery are forever gone; others bankrupt themselves or their families in order to try the new panaceas. The second fact in the Seydel matter is: There was no justification for a scientific body devoted to chemistry to permit itself to be used as an unpaid agent...
...humane battle, the Whites under General Mola went crashing victoriously along with their trucks and coughing machine guns, entered San Sebastian virtually unresisted. The Anarchists fled back up the coast to Bilbao, announced: "Rather than surrender Bilbao we shall burn it to the last empty box, to the last wisp of straw...
...through every vicissitude in "Rose of the Rancho," an outdoor action romance with music and John Boles. Gladys' voice is so accurately and truthfully recorded that no one much cares that her acting is superficial, operatic, and unconvincing. She plays the role of the aristocratic Rosita Castro, a wisp of a girl who, under the pseudonym of Don Carlos, leads the vigilantes in their fight against the land-stealing Yankee foreigners. Like Joan of Arc, this murder-minded maiden defends her countrymen from their enemies. This is a very thrilling Wild West, made especially for grownups...
...Speaker! Mr. Speaker!" bawled Representative Sweeney, his wisp of white hair bobbing...
...those who think a Harvard biddie is a meek, Maude Adams wisp of a woman who glides unseen and unheard through the monastic suites with pail and dustup, the life of one Crimson editor will seem a complete enigma. Mrs G. . . . to whom he wistfully refers as "the woman who allegedly cleans my room," is a German fran of no mean tonnage and poundage, who keeps both him and his roommate completely under her thumb. Unfortunately for his relations with his redoubtable keeper the editor is far from the paragon of neatness, and at any given time his bedroom looks...