Word: hollow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bleaker still if he is a lavatory man employed by the U. S. Government. Nor are lavatory men alone in their exigency. Federal attendants of all sorts, guards in zoos and biological gardens, seneschals in museums and the gray-faced individuals of nameless profession who patrol at intervals the hollow echoing corridors of public libraries ? all are underpaid, all are overworked...
...American spectacle appeared for its first week in crude contrast to Siegfried. This picture is the one with which Famous Players hoped to repeat the success of The Ten Commandments. It is in the same mood-Bible teaching all tangled up with a modern allegory. But it somehow seems hollow, even beside that garish venture. The story of the Prodigal Son is the specific parable employed. The characters are chiefly impersonated by William Collier Jr. and Greta Nissen. There is plenty of sex and a practically uninterrupted killing of the fatted calf. The Wanderer will probably be popular...
...aged golfers, bunting their balls in a hollow of the course of the St. Louis Country Club, were startled by the sudden apparition of a figure on a distant hill. Cut against the sky, there was nothing in the silhouette (it was that of a lean youth in golf clothes, carrying a club in his hand) that would itself have caused alarm. But instead of the measured stride of the golfer, this youth employed a furious, irregular lope. Suddenly, without a waggle, in a pause that hardly broke his stride, his club described an invisible arc; several seconds afterward, pushing...
Before the nodding copse, tangled in its phylacteries, her cry of guilt was the hollow hooting of a nameless bird in a field of desecration. The Kravno women of Israel lamented her madness. That such a year should come upon Serra Golda, her popular grocer-mother...
None so humble and strict in her pieties as hollow-breasted Leah, penitent Jewess. The wicked willows saw her live black hair hacked off. Come Yom Kippur, she fainted with fasting. After a year, pale, pious Eli from the yeshiveh (seminary) brought her to peace...