Word: hollower
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heart is a hollow muscular basket which begins to beat about ten days after conception and stops only with death. The cavity consists of four chambers. Two of them, called auricles, receive blood from the veins. Two, called ventricles, push blood into the arteries...
Bobby Clark has been deprived of his cane in Thumbs Up. His gadget this year is a hollow cigar through which he peppers court attendants with spitballs from the bench as he presides over a murder trial. He also plays Senator Screwy Short from Louisiana, and a pathetic character who wanders into a Communist printing plant to get a poster made for a lodge dance. Despite his repeated protests, "We just want to dance!" the poster he finally gets demands that all the lodge members meet in Union Square, march up Fifth Avenue, fight the police...
...chivalric romances. He sallies forth, enters a tavern where strolling players are performing. Vastly amused, they dub him knight. He swears fealty to his Dulcinea -a tavern wench. Arousing his trusty Sancho Panza (Robey) from bed, the old knight drags him off on a career of errantry. Dreamy, hollow-eyed, grandiloquent, Don Quixote perpetually fancies he is dealing with giants or magicians. His bewildered but eager squire does his best to help and coddle the old zany. After the Don has attacked a flock of sheep the pair escape but when they incite a group of convicts to rebel, they...
...press relations, afterwards worked for Roosevelt in the 1920 campaign. Later he mooned around the Navy press room, tried to peddle freelance stories on the plight of the fighting fleet. From Pathe Newsreel Louis Howe got him back for the pre-convention campaign in 1932. A genial fellow whose hollow cheeks and sunken eyes belie his good disposition, Marvin Mclntyre made himself valuable as Franklin Roosevelt's contact, first, with the Press, later with politicians and bigwigs. He lingers perpetually in the Presidential offing, chatting with those to whom the President wants to be nice without seeing, with those...
...Hsinking, fast-booming capital of Japan's puppet Empire of Manchukuo, the official Manchukuo News Agency dispatched last week this hot wire concerning hollow-eyed Emperor Kang...