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...Admiral of the Royal Navy who had the worst time last week, whom all the others hoped to assist, was hollow-cheeked King Haakon of Norway (honorary...
Manhattan newshawks announced Q. E.'s arrival while she was still miles from Ambrose Light. Not until the next morning did she heave to at Quarantine, greeted there at the end of her strange maiden voyage not by swarms of welcoming craft, but by three hollow grunts from the humble sludge boat Coney Island, on her way to dump outside...
...great deal more about heredity in fruit flies and sweet peas than about heredity in man. They cannot conscript men & women for experimental breeding in laboratories. Thus limited, they grab eagerly at what observable oddments they can-collect evidence on hereditary tongue-twisting, eye color, extra fingers, webbed fingers, hollow or "cobbler's" chest, white forelock...
Lean, black-a-vised, hollow-eyed, Monsignor Sheen is a persuasive, lucid speaker, with a well-cultivated voice, who can make religion sensible and attractive to great masses of people. Though his official job is teaching philosophy at the Catholic University in Washington, he fills 150 speaking dates a year. Three weeks ago he did not let an attack of grippe keep him from engagements in St. Louis and Cleveland, nor a fever of 102° prevent him from preaching at St. Patrick's Cathedral, Manhattan, where for the tenth year he was Lenten orator...
Irving had been up to Abbotsford to see Scott; he had gamboled in Paris with Thomas Moore; the fame which he had won by amusing himself (with his Knickerbocker's History of New York, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow) was at its height. In Madrid he buckled down to his first job of scholarly writing, a life of Columbus. Young Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, passing through, noted that Irving was at his desk every morning at six; that in society he "said very pleasant agreeable things in a husky, weak, peculiar voice." He liked everybody, but he especially liked...