Word: hollower
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...people of this city. . . . "You talk about dictatorship. None has been proposed. I am asking sound city management. Prudent businessmen . . . recognize it as business management. Politicians call it dictatorship. . . . We cannot effect economies with platitudes, nor can we balance our budget with an essay. . . . Your charge comes as a hollow mockery to the overburdened taxpayers ... of the City who, for more than a decade, have suffered as cruel and vicious dictatorship as has ever existed in an American community. . . ." Just as crisply Governor Lehman retorted that Mayor LaGuardia "missed the point" of his opposition to dictatorship. He stood...
...Wreck of the Old 97" was in the courts again and thus last week did Judge J. Warren Davis begin his opinion in the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia. What Judge Davis had to decide was whether or not David Graves George, a spare, hollow-cheeked old hillbilly who still works for the Southern Railroad, had written the version of the "Old 97" sung by Vernon Dalhart on a Victor phonograph record in 1924. Hillbilly George claimed that he wrote the song in 1903, a week after he had helped to pry nine bodies...
...Speaker of the House, by tradition, is above party but the leader of the majority is not. Upon Tennessee's long, lean, hollow-eyed Joseph Byrns fell the job of running the Democratic steamroller smoothly and successfully through to adjournment. He, too, predicted "harmony" at the outset of the session. But, just to make sure, Leader Byrns went to work on a change in the House rules which now makes it possible for 145 disgruntled members to get together and upset the best laid plans of the majority...
...platform before the Philadelphia Lecture Assembly strode slender, freckle-faced Eva Le Gallienne of Manhattan's Civic Repertory Theatre and strapping, hollow-eyed Ethel Barrymore. Invited to address the Assembly earlier in the week, Miss Le Gallienne failed to appear, was now making amends by speaking gratis. Several hundred Philadelphia socialite women, including Mrs. Upton Favorite, Mrs. Trenchard Emlen Newbold and Mrs. Arthur B. Waters, the Assembly's director, who had scolded her roundly and threatened to sue, appeared to hear her apologize. But Miss Le Gallienne had no apology to make. She rapped...
...strode into the cavernous metal hangar in which was no dirigible but M. I. T.'s giant electrostatic generator (TIME, March 7, 1932). There they joined newsmen and M. I. T. engineers and miscellaneous scientists. In the gloom loomed the generator- two gleaming 15-ft. hollow aluminum balls, each atop a 25-ft. column of textolite, each column mounted on a massive four-wheel truck. The two trucks were on a single track which ran the length of the hangar and beyond. Small manholes opened into both aluminum balls which were rigged up inside as compact laboratories...