Word: wispyness
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For nearly 40 years, wispy, stooped Billy "Smith" was just another of the wandering fruit tramps who drift through California's central valley, following the crop seasons. Three years ago, Billy settled down at Dingville, a little grocery-&-bar crossroads on Alfred ("Dutch") Montna's ranch outside Marysville...
Arnold J. Toynbee, wispy British historiographer whose magnum opus, A Study of History, is six volumes long already, arrived in the U.S. to work on the final three volumes. Why did he think his work (in condensed form) had become a U.S. bestseller? "It's very funny," he admitted...
White-haired, wispy little Lisle Maxwell Sanders-who is often called "Mr. Kieran" for his famed look-alike-was born 49 years ago, the son of a Kentucky farmer and stock trader. When he was eight he went to work as an errand boy in the stockyards, and he gave...
Schemer and Coup. Since last January's elections, one of Mikolajczyk's erstwhile followers had been scheming to take the Polish Peasant Party into the Government bloc. A few hours after the Government communique the schemer, sandy-haired, wispy-mustached Czeslaw Wycech and a handful of followers fell...
Their prey was a wispy-haired old fellow named William F. Horn, who turned up in southwest Pennsylvania fifteen years ago with a set of documents he called the Horn Papers. They were full of surprising new findings about Pennsylvania in the 17005. Soon a series of articles, based on...