Word: wraith
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...presence of such an actual situation as this, what becomes of Dumbarton Oaks? It is left the palest of ghosts. It slips through the corridors of the world's chancelleries so insubstantial a wraith that no man can lay hand on it and say, 'Here is a living, breathing, corporeal body!' . . . For what purpose, then, are the delegates going to Cleveland? Is it an invitation to a wake...
...Jesse Jones, the Texas banker with the gimlet eye, and Miss Perkins, who has no more contact with realities than the wraith of an ectoplasm...
Sophie Tucker, last of the Red-Hot Mamas (see cut), emitted great waves of sexagenarian heat at Manhattan's Copacabana nightclub. A 179-lb. wraith of her former self, she wowed her audience with numbers from Some of These Days (which she introduced in 1909) to Mairzy Doats, rocked the club with a doubly meaningful closing act called "Dr. Tucker's Remedy." Said Miss Tucker: "Oldtime circuit vaudeville will never come back, but my show is the same as it has always been; favorites last. Everyone, everyone is so friendly, and as for my friend," she gestured across...
...scolded upstart militarists, nagged the new New Deal ("economic pansies"), yearned for the old New Deal of NRA. He lambasted "my friend Franklin Roosevelt." From time to time he saw things with an amazingly discerning eye. From time to time he lost himself in strange clouds, wandered, a bitter wraith, among his own uncertainties. He was "Old Ironpants." He had a spell of isolationism. In April 1941, when the President declined to renew his commission as an Army reserve officer, he wrote back lugubriously: "I am sure you don't like me any more...