Word: wisp
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dollar seats, and no shrieking ballyhoo have any part in the game. The priests of "sport for sport's sake" can burn another hecatomb. For the spectators, any lack of technique among the players will certainly be compensated by the appearance in person of that famous Will o' the Wisp, the amateur spirit...
Live and Learn. Presented by Michael Kallesser-who wrote One Man's Woman, Trial Marriage, Marriage on Approval- Live and Learn is a thin little wisp of domestic dramaturgy. If Frederick Manning ("a vagabond and a plunger") had not come to dine with Harold ("who has a pagan love for movement and color") and Mabel Fuller, along with Annette Roberts ("a gold digger on a legal holiday"), there would have been no elderberry wine. Had it not been for the elderberry wine, Harold would not have been drunk, Annette more drunk. Nor would Mabel have left home and Frederick...