Word: hollower
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...read a speech "written by my boys," (Skouras cannot write English), gave up and asked Miss Emerson that, if movies are so bad, why had she criticized Hollywood for not letting TV show new pictures? At this point, Miss Emerson kissed her "old friend," and Skouras proclaimed, "in these hollow (sic) halls," that movies are better than ever. It seems that he had made up the slogan...
...Papa was no killjoy. He was often in the mood for pranks. "Once we were all going bathing, and we girls and Papa hurried on ahead and hid in the hollow, and when Mamma, Auntie and Strakhov were passing Papa set up a howl like a wolf, to frighten them, but spoiled it all because he said,'Now all howl,' so loudly...
...bureau. Then he went out the door of the entry, into the tentative brightness of the sun, and across the quad to the mailbox. He stood for a minute reading the little card with its list of collection times, then he dropped the letter in and heard the hollow slap as it hit the bottom...
Only Actor James (Tobacco Road) Barton emerges with credit; he gives a salty performance as a turkey-raising hermit who befriends the escaped asylum inmate. Scripter-Director E. A. Dupont garnishes the picture's disjointed hokum with meticulous pictorial compositions that serve as hollow reminders of his eminence as a German director (Variety...
Greenglass said that the plutonium was in the form of a sphere. He may have meant a hollow sphere, but more probably he meant that the plutonium was cut into small pointed chunks that would form a sphere of more than critical mass when pushed together by the "implosion." In the unexploded bomb, the pieces were probably separated just enough to keep them from acting as a critical mass...