Word: hollow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Deep down in the crypt of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Manhattan, rattled the bones of the Protestant Episcopal family skeleton last week. All the famed trustees* of the cathedral held their backs to the door and feigned guileless smiles, but the hollow knock of femur and tibia was audible to many observers, and while the skeleton clanked, a lone goat roamed disconsolately out of the cathedral close into the wide, wide world, and that was young Rev. Joseph B. Bernardin, who, until last week, was assistant to the cathedral's dean and instructor in the choir school...
...Drunkard's Curve. People could leave the train at that point for stages of the Temperance Alliance, which ran to Cold Stream River, but after that the train made no stops, although it could be flagged at Reformationsburg, until it reached Perdition. At Delirium Falls, Maniac Marsh, Hangman's Hollow and several other pleasant villages passengers were thrown out without stopping the train...
Life and Life. No picture could be half so dismal as that of the office of a humorous magazine where the staff feels that it isn't considered funny enough. Hollow with chagrin, wild with despair, sounded the laughter in the studios of Life as the old staff prepared their swan-song for the presses. A shadow seemed to lie all through that final number, with its reprint of favorite drawings from the spent twelvemonth...
...streets of town and city to hear the latest baseball scores. During the late World Series, to which Japanese newspaper correspondents travelled 8,000 miles. Japanese excitement eclipsed that shown in Manhattan or St. Louis. Were the World Series played in Japan, it would be necessary to hollow out the crater of Fujiyama to provide a stadium of suitable dimensions...
...artlessness there is no sign of that intellectual poverty which so often shows itself, for example, in Haydn. Few composers, not even Beethoven and Bach, have been so seldom banal. He can be repetitious and even tedious, but it seems a sheer impossibility for him to be obvious or hollow. Such defects get into works of art when the composer's lust to create is unaccompanied by a sufficiency of sound and charming ideas. But Schubert never lacked charming ideas. Within the limits of his interests and curiosities he hatched more good ideas in his thirty-one years than...