Word: hollow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With a horse, Ulysses loosed destruction over Troy. In 1871, Mrs. O'Leary did the same for Chicago with a petulant cow, which shattered an oil lantern in its straw-lined stall. Flames ran amuck, ravaged the straggling town, left it blackened, hollow, crisp. Disconsolate, penniless, young Potter Palmer stood in the ashes of his home. Suddenly, where was Bertha? Bertha had borrowed a buggy, careened into a nearby village, wired New York for an extension of credit. New York agreed, and-phoenix-like-Chicago and the Potter Palmers soared together...
...lack of lustre promptly confesses an imitation to the expert. Less practiced eyes look at the thread holes. When true pearls are drilled, the skin at their poles remains flat and smooth. Imitation pearls are built around this hollow core, which therefore is considerably larger and has perceptible lips. Other proofs of true pearls: they are not easily frangible (imitations are only wax-filled glass balls); being organic, they are dulled and ultimately dissolved in vinegar's mild acetic acid (imitations dull but do not dissolve...
...What gets most on my nerves is the hollow mockery of it, to raise between heaven and earth, the emblem of Christianity, as a defiance to a fellow citizen, the Executive of a great State. As far as I am concerned, I would sooner go down to ignominious defeat than be elected to any office in this country if I had to have-if to accomplish it I had to have the support of any group [the Klan] with such perverted ideas about Americanism...
...might as well be a perfunctory one-party affair, to save public bother and private expense. With a Republican Congress, an efficient nationwide party organization, good times and peaceful problems to start his record on, Herbert Hoover appeared to have the U. S. more completely in the hollow of his hand than any President since Roosevelt...
FRANCE Off Portugal A fat squat Greek ship, the Aikaterini Goulandris, wallowed slowly, comfortably in the Atlantic last week just off Portugal. Suddenly there was a scraping hollow sound at the hull as though the ship had grazed a wreck or perhaps a submarine. The captain ordered the engines stopped, waited for two hours, saw no wreckage, went on his way. Actually the Greek ship had struck and foundered the newest and best French submarine, the Ondine. A crew of 43 undoubtedly perished...