Word: wisp
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...authorities is to convince the college man that such competition is worth-while. To rely on publicity is perhaps noxious, but in this case as in a thousand others, the end will justify the means. Youth will always seek fame, even if it is a will-o-the-wisp; and to use youth's fantasy for its own improvement is the height of teaching genius...
...white unicorn from its faery retreat. That was a brave chase and when Orion brought home the head, the Parliament of Erl began to feel their lord was indeed a magic lord. When he employed the trolls for whips and the will-o'-the-wisp marsh-folk to help him hunt unicorns by night, they knew his magic beyond a doubt. In fact, there was so much magic loose in Erl that a reactionary movement began...
...impossible but wealthy husband arrives, she forces her night-owl to hoot some efficient lies that restore her to her spouse. The game of tag is over?and the youth is it. He finds he has been spending the night with a Fata Morgana?a will o' the wisp beauty, who dissolves with the morning mists. In its sense of the immense calamity of adolescent rebuff in love, this play by Ernest Vajda borders on tragedy, saved by a youthful sense that tomorrow is another day. It is shot through with sardonic, Continental gleams, and a tingling realization that...
...have read all their books. I know all their arguments. . . . I do not regard them as rational beings. ... If the lesser and immediate demands of labor could not be obtained from society as it is, it would be mere dreaming to preach and pursue the will-o'-the-wisp, a new society constructed from rainbow materials...
...follow the will o' the wisp of the dollar, according to Mr. Gay, leads the business man into a bog of profit and loss and his career sinks to a job. The engineer, as Colonel Wilgus explained, who thinks only in terms of girders and logarithms becomes a salaried adviser; the one who sees his building as a part of a city's progress becomes a leader. Emerson was speaking for this broader vision when he said that it was a fatal tendency of society to disintegrate into men in cubby-holes, each seeing the world through the narrow opening...