Word: hollowing
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...Jean Harlow in widow's weeds, holding an apple stuck on a knife, against a wallpaper background of orange blossoms. Economy offered Greta Garbo pinching a smartly painted penny and wearing for a hat a sauce pan from whose handle dangled a pair of eyeglasses. Mater Dolorosa was a hollow-cheeked Marlene Dietrich, with heart-shaped buckles on her suspenders, a phonograph record on her head, looking into a magnifying mirror...
...House, Alabama's hollow-cheeked, hard-fisted George Huddleston got a howling ovation when, pleading for "regulation" instead of "vengeance," he ripped into both combatants. "I deplore these outside influences," barked Democrat Huddleston. ". . . Before we had the first hearing on this bill the chairman of our committee [Texas' Sam Rayburn] radioed from one end of the country to the other telling the people how bad the utilities were and how much this kind of legislation was needed...
Like an invisible ectoplasm surrounded by devoted spiritualists, the credit of the Japanese Empire was under scrutiny last week in a hollow square of green-covered tables surrounded by the National Policy Council...
...addition of substances to keep it in a clear, unclotted, fluid condition. Thus gallons of blood may be accumulated from donors, kept in a refrigerator until needed for a transfusion. The other helpful procedure is venoclysis, the slow drop-by-drop introduction into a vein, through a hollow needle, of a salt or a sugar solution, which a patient needs to support his strength, to nourish or to cure him. A sterile container for such solutions, to be administered by venoclysis, is now a customary part of operating room equipment. If an operation is going to cause great loss...
...embracing Toilet Goods Association. The National Association of Purchasing Agents harkened to inflation warnings, and the American Scrap Exporters Conference learned that only 10% to 15% of the iron & steel junk shipped abroad went indirectly into armaments. The New York Bond Club held its annual shindig at Sleepy Hollow, enlivened as usual by publication of the Bawl Street Journal, expert parody of the Wall Street Journal. Hailed by the National Board of Fire Underwriters as a sure sign of recovery was a sharp drop in the arson rate.* But the most important convention of the week was the 44th annual...