Word: hollowing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...other copies of the Greyhounds caused Sculptor Diederich a little embarrassment. One was sold to a Turk who was furious to discover that the bronze was hollow. The other remained in Diederich's studio in New York for years. One evening in 1915 Sculptor Diederich gave a farewell party before moving to another studio. About the third round of drinks the problem of the greyhounds and what to do with them seemed very acute. Somebody suddenly remembered that there was in Central Park a vacant pedestal. With great sweating and grunting the entire party loaded the greyhounds into...
...twenties one of the most popular songs in the land was the lugubrious lament of a dispirited convict who wished he had the wings of an angel. Some 5,000,000 copies and phonograph records of The Prisoner's Song were sold. According to a myth as hollow as it was widespread, the composer was a condemned man awaiting execution in the death house of the Missouri or Texas or Oklahoma penitentiary. In Manhattan, around the all-night delicatessens where Broadway song pluggers and publishers gather for gossip and fun, it was always assumed that the composer was Vaudevillian...
...slender, sharp-featured, vivacious. Definitely wooden as an actress, she displays a Mid-western twang when speaking, is at ease only when singing arias from Mignon and Les Huguenots, beside which the popular concoctions written for the film are apt to seem unusually hollow...
...night from a Pittsburgh airport with ten passengers who had each paid $1, a trimotored Stinson belonging to Pittsburgh Skyways, Inc., a sightseeing firm, had flown but two miles toward a nearby fair when two motors apparently failed. Plunging into a clump of thicket in inaccessible Buttermilk Hollow, it gushed a fountain of flame which incinerated the pilot, all except one passenger, a girl who jumped at the last minute before the crash, miraculously escaped injury...
...years Chicago's hollow-eyed lively Attorney Mary Belle Spencer has been a stock figure in that city's news. During the Hauptmann trial, she circularized the Hunterdon County, N. J. venire rolls with a long fantasy to prove the alien carpenter innocent. During the Century of Progress, she tried to have Fan Dancer Sally Rand jailed for indecency. Same year Attorney Spencer was herself haled into court to explain why she had never sent her two daughters to school. Daughters Victoria, now 14, and Mary Belle II, 16, their mother then explained, had been brought up without...