Word: hollow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...quoted as believing Yurovski suddenly resolved to assassinate the Imperial family when he discovered that Nicholas was communicating with loyal friends by means of such notes concealed in the hollow cork of a milk bottle. According to her account, a pet dog belonging to the young Tsarevitch commenced to howl inconsolably as soon as his master had been shot dead. This so worked upon the nerves of the murderer, Yurovski, that he seized the dog and dashed its brains out against a red-hot stove...
...think as we hollow the narrow...
...altogether unrelated to the seductive photographs on the lobby. But it is greatly to be doubted if even the lure of wickedness would have saved so anaemic a production. Perhaps the municipal censor, or whatever he is called, is doing the public a service by demonstrating how hollow a revue which depends on its reputation for naughtiness is likely to become whenever it is made to be well-behaved
...bedside of one Mae Wahl, an anemic patient at the Greenpoint Hospital, L. I., a husky blood-seller was conducted, introduced, and told to roll up his sleeve. Through a hollow needle, a doctor then connected a tube with a vein in his arm. The tube led up to a barrel-shaped cylinder about an inch high from which on the other side a similar tube stretched to prick the chilly flesh of poor Mae Wahl. The doctor turned a switch and a plunger began to work in the cylinder. On the down stroke it sucked blood...
...small talk about the Gold Coast. It seems that things are coming along nicely out there this year. The tatoo and bamboo business is booming, gold is, of course, plentiful, and heads are up at par. Its a good thing to hear this too because sometimes there comes a hollow, uneasy feeling that all is not well on the Gold Coast. No one need worry...