Word: hollow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cynosure, of course, was Pennsylvania's lean, grey primate, Andrew William Mellon. For months people had been saying that the fate of Hooverism lay in the hollow of the delicately deliberate hand which runs the Treasury Department. A few forecasters, notably Col. Theodore Roosevelt, had predicted that if the anti-Administration forces beat Hoover in Indiana, the Administration's cautious senior lieutenant (Mellon) would make some gesture friendly to the industrious junior lieutenant (Hoover) who wants to carry on the Administration's work...
...Victory without opposition is a hollow thing. But an excess of popular support where little support was necessary is not hollow. That is why Hooverites rejoiced last week when the Republican Party's busy Beaver man, unopposed in the California primary, obtained his home State's 29 delegates by virtue of some 600,000 votes. Though many a Republican cast his vote in the Democratic primary for strategic purposes, Candidate Hoover's total was larger than the combined totals of competing Republicans in California's last two presidential primaries. That Candidate Hoover is the Favorite...
...rare--still they attract the attention of undergraduates. And so, when Charlle Paddock comes to the Stadium this week, he need have no fear that his ninety-five records will attract only a handful of track men and a bored reporter. The Stadium will not give a hollow echo to the spikes, for herocpass, but some remnants of hero-worship are not to be destroyed even by a four-year course in indifference...
...famed rolling pin, Annie, Dinty Moore, Ellen. Jiggs (J. Farrell MacDonald) grew suddenly rich, possessed a Long Island estate. Jiggs wouldn't wear his dinner suit. Jiggs was hit on the head. Jiggs wouldn't meet the Count. Jiggs simulated suicide. Then everyone realized that Society is hollow, that homely virtues are best...
Sherwood Anderson, author of Dark Laughter, collects news from Coon Hollow, Spratts Creek, Troutdale, Marion and many another Virginian village, prints it in two weekly newssheets. When he bought the Smyth County News and the Marion Democrat (combined circulation, 5,000) he explained to whom it might concern: 'I am doing it primarily to make a living. My books have never sold." Last week Editor & Publisher Anderson confided to readers of the Democrat: "The trouble with us is that we have to write the whole paper, and make our living nights. You can't make money and have...