Word: hollow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bungle, due to an awkward set that forced the ecclesiastical procession into the body of the church, an amateur chorus, a green Scarpia (Lawrence Tibbett), the lack of an organ and the sluggish conducting of Merola. . . . Any unforeseen gap she [Jeritza] would fill with her bloodcurdling shrieks or her hollow whispers; she raved, raced and ranted all over the scene, she trembled like a palsied aspen leaf; betimes she played the accomplished acrobat, and, of course, she sang most of the 'Viss d'Arte' lying face downward, as if praying to Proserpine through a crack...
There was, to begin with, hollow-cheeked, insurgent Senator George W. Norris of Nebraska, where the trip started. He it is who is supposed to guard the Progressive mantle of the late, great LaFollette. The Omaha speech on farm relief received a nod of Norris approval. Of the Denver waterpower speech, Senator Norris said: "... Great! . . . We're up against the greatest monopoly, the greatest attempt at control of great resources, ever undertaken since the days of Jesus Christ!" The Omaha World-Herald, daily newspaper of the Brown Derby's advisor, onetime Senator Gilbert M. Hitchcock of Nebraska...
...William Joynson-Hicks, British Home Secretary: "Unless the nations of the world follow the example of Great Britain and show a real desire to curtail their armaments, the compact will be nothing but a hollow sham...
Though June touched the vines of Widener with satisfactory beauty, through the Yard Concerts were tint with sweetness enough and sentimentality enough, though Preserpina and the Class Day Committee have joined hands to make happy the parting guest, spring in the Yard has thus far been a hollow mockery. Traditional paraphernalia like the call of the silvery Reinhardt has been dragged out in a pathetic effort at cheeriness. Nowhere has to been recognized that the play was not wrong, but the setting. At last someone has wondere; where are the gowns of yesteryear...
Besides this timely gesture with the bat, Dobens held the Harvard hitters in the hollow of his hand throughout the game. He allowed only four hits and struck out eight men. The potency of his spell is seen in the fact that although he committed every fault in the pitching calendar, the score was no larger. Three passes, three hit basemen, a balk and a wild pitch could not dim the glory of his hurling performance...