Word: wisp
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...confusion for the army, a lapse that must never recur . . ."), with intimate affection of the quieter moments of routine ("Like the Lord's Prayer, you had it all by heart . . . feet, head, belly, legs; nearside, offside, eyes, nose, dock; hoof-pick, body-brush, dandy-brush, sponge, stable-rubber, wisp . . . 'Stables' hour was as sacred as the twenty minutes before the drawing room door opened and nurse came in to say that it was bed time . . ."). And with a dogged, unhurried intensity he makes Tubby Windrush grow up, grow sick of soldiering...
Among the five who qualified was Alvin Untermyer's Hexameter, ridden by Patricia Bolling, a 99-lb., 22-year-old wisp whom many experts consider the most skillful young horsewoman in the U. S. today. Though Hexameter was nosed out of victory by his stablemate, Illuminator, spectators who had kept their eyes on the horses agreed that Liz Whitney had lost her reign...
Owner of the Egoist Press, publisher of The Egoist, Harriet Weaver was a shy little wisp of a woman, terrified by the dramatic manners of the literary great she patronized. She has been called "an authentic but difficult saint." To Joyce she proved an angel. In 1922, to assure him complete peace of mind and concentration on his work, Egoist Weaver gave him a large sum of money outright. Most reliable information puts it at ?40,000 (about $200,000). With this gift Joyce's biography becomes largely a bibliography...
...that of the new Pontiff are folded back to the walls. To show the crowds outside that "a Pope has been made," the ballots, which previously have been burned in the conclave stove with damp straw (to send up black smoke), are this time burned alone, and a thin wisp of white signals from the chapel chimney...
...great segment of U. S. economy-the producers of raw materials whose prosperity varies with the price of commodities-"recovery" was still a will-o'-the-wisp. Last week the Bureau of Labor Statistics index of wholesale commodity prices was at a four-year...