Word: wisp
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Although security is undoubtedly a will-o'-the-wisp, some inner force in man drives him ever onward toward this goal. And nowhere is "security" more important and complicated than in international affairs. However intangible, there are certain controllable factors; just as in scientific experimentation. The most important of these, for Americans, is the man who occupies the Presidential chair...
...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...