Word: wisp
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dark, still night last week sentries guarded the lonely road to the Navesink station. No wisp...
Seasoned with a wisp of hair...
...years ago a Seattle salvage company proposed to raise the wreck and recover its treasure, had little difficulty selling $500,000 of stock in the enterprise. It was to be no will-o'-the-wisp chase, but a sober, scientific business undertaking...
...Harewood. In Harewood's trophy room is a silver-mounted riding whip that is one of the most famed racing trophies in Britain. Originally "The Whip" was a cravache used by peruked Charles II, but the original whip was lost, has been a will o' the wisp for antiquaries these many years. The present trophy is supposed to have been carefully plaited from the tail of that greatest of stallions, the unbeaten Eclipse. Lord Harewood was given seven days either to forfeit The Whip or agree to race his father-in-law's five-year...
...muscle in on almost everything. They had spoken to him like dream women wrapping him in an aura of honeyed words. He could feel the pulse of the orchestra and see the colored revolving spot ferret out the sparkle in some darling eye or sprinkle gold on some wisp of hair. And he had felt deliciously sad about himself and these tall willowy dancing girls who would soon be frowsy and decrepit. These fine lads going out late into the world to be broken slowly on the wheel of fortune. Thank God he had another year. He felt...