Word: hollower
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...penny-watching, ambitious mother, his future looked fairly rosy. He should have married Woman No. 2, Dixey, with whom he fell in love at college; but she had no money, even less background than Bob, so his mother soon put a stop to that. Woman No. 3, Pen, hollow-chested but popular debutante, had hearty parental approval. Pen was not rich but she had an aged aunt who was. Meantime Bob became pleasantly entangled with Woman No. 4, Sadie, a stenographer in his office; she gave him many an opportunity to carry out his dishonorable intentions. Pen, jilted...
...Grand Hotel des Wagon-Lits. An assassin shot and gravely wounded that thoroughgoing scamp General Chang Ching-yao, onetime military governor of Hunan Province. Police announced that Chang's mission was to set up a monarchy in northern China with Japanese money. Monarch was to be hollow-eyed Henry Pu Yi. now puppet chief of puppet Manchukuo. Chang is "one of the most notoriously disreputable of all China's war-lords." For killing a U. S. missionary in 1920 he was later "pardoned," by whom nobody knows. His most notable reputation is for cowardice. As Governor of Hunan...
...Chahar Province, Inner Mongolia. Mayor Chou Ta-wen of Peiping ordered anti-aircraft guns mounted at 20 points round the old city wall. Not that he could keep Japanese troops out, but just to make things more uncomfortable for them. Bets increased that the Heaven-Sent Army will set hollow-eyed Henry Pu Yi on the dragon throne of the old Forbidden City before summer. Peiping universities packed up their libraries and laboratory equipment, prepared to ship them to Shanghai...
...Went yesterday to Cambridge and spent most of the day at Mount Auburn; got my luncheon at Fresh Pond, and went back again to the woods. After much wandering and seeing many things, four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see-not to eat not for love, but only gliding. . . ." Thus patly comes a passage from Ralph Waldo Emerson's Journal to supply a title for a novel about Harvard. Good novels of U. S. college life have been rare since Francis Scott Fitzgerald's This Side of Paradise. More comprehensive...
...certain to be one of the busiest Vatican functionaries during the Holy Year, he would have no time for a cardinal's duties. Monsignor Caccia Dominioni consulted a picture postcard, directed workmen to a spot on the wall. With chisels and mallets they chipped away plaster. Presently a hollow was discovered, containing a bronze casket and a cylinder. These Monsignor Caccia Dominioni removed. The prelates departed, officially sure that the Holy Door of St. Peter's, walled up at the end of the 1925 Holy Year and containing mementoes of it, had not been disturbed...