Word: hollower
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...originally honest construction business of Kreuger & Toll had become by 1932 nothing but a holding company for International Match and Swedish Match and a catch-all for Kreuger's credit deals. The report of the Swedish investigating committee seemed to confirm popular belief that Kreuger & Toll was hollow right down to the ground, that the Kreuger & Toll debentures sold by Ivar Kreuger in Europe and the U. S. in 1929 were about as worthless as any Kreuger securities except those that Kreuger had forged by hand...
...when Sir Samuel signed it in Paris (TIME, Dec. 16 & 23). Last week not peace but a capitulation to II Duce was made by Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden amid cries in the House of Commons that His Majesty's Government were "cowards" and "pol-troons". These cries were hollow, ignored by the Baldwin Cabinet like so much wind, because in fact the Empire has now scrapped all reliance on the League of Nations and is arming at breakneck speed-not necessarily for war, per-haps for Pax Britannica to be imposed on restless Europe in the future...
...front of him: "If it wasn't for you folks, I'd be afraid way out here in the country." Heads turned. A voice came back: "I understand they hunt deer up here between Rows J and K." The answer was cut short by a hammering sound, hollow and staccato, like a hatchet assaulting an orange crate: The 21st Republican National Convention was gaveled to order...
...brief spring, the hot summers when the poor lay out on fire-escapes "and the child cried thinly and endlessly." But Poet Benét admits he cannot explain the city or its society to future cornerstone riflers, and to serious readers his apostrophe may sound a little hollow...
...Bond Club of New York in connection with its annual field day, the Bawl Street Journal is edited by John A. Straley, a literate, sardonic Wall Streeter who is now advertising manager for Lord, Abbett & Co., investment dealers. Last week, while the Bond Club was frolicking in Sleepy Hollow, N. Y., more than 10,000 people paid 50? per copy to read the contributions Editor Straley had accepted for his "Stage Money Edition...