Word: hollower
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rushed off to cable: "The Emperor's face is studious and interesting and very expressive. At mention of any subject outside routine, his face lighted, his features were suddenly alive and his eyes were seen to be glowing with interest even behind his darkened glasses." Next evening the hollow-eyed Manchu puppet who lives with a small Manchu Court at Hsinking, completely surrounded by Japanese soldiers, was rushed from his palace between lines of Japanese guards to the railway station. The station was full of Japanese, with scarcely a native Manchukuan to be seen. Far down the track...
...Thomas' folksong society. When he arrived in Manhattan to sail his bag gage consisted of one extra shirt, a quilt his grandmother had made, a gourd for a drinking cup, a corncob pipe and his fiddle wrapped in an oilcloth poke. He came, he said, from Lost Hope Hollow and he was going to see the King. Ashlanders have since said that there is no such place as Lost Hope Hollow, that Jilson Setters' real name is William Day. never much of a mountaineer, but an oldtime beggar...
With undying hope in his voice, hollow-eyed young Dr. Robert Cornish last week repeated, over and over, the name of the dog he had killed almost two months ago with ether and nitrogen, revived with chemical and mechanical resuscitants (TIME, May 7 et ante). Lazarus gave no sign that he heard...
...first time in 14 years it rained for the Bond Club of New York's annual field day last week. The rain annoyed a troupe of women swimmers and divers hired for entertainment more than it did the 300 members who journeyed to the Sleepy Hollow Country Club near Scarborough, N. Y. For a long time no one noticed that Bondman Wilfred T. Pratt had fallen into the pool during an exciting barrel race. On the "Sleepy Hollow Stock Exchange" trading in lottery tickets for automobiles and cases of whiskey was active with no restrictions on short-selling...
...political emergency may call for. The founder of his dynasty was his grandfather, also named Eugene, who, with a brother Adolph, left Bidestroff in the then Germna territory of the Saar and came to France in 1836. More particularly Brothers Eugene and Adolph came to Le Crcesot (literally "The Hollow" or "The Crucible") where to the south of the Burgundy wine district a small foundry had been making cannon from the days of Louis XVI. With perfect impartiality it had supplied first the monarchy, then the republic, and then Napoleon's Empire with its products, bought the foundry (La Societe...