Word: hollowing
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...soul. And in the past few days he has embraced the conviction that it is also getting the better of most of the professors hereabouts. Those Saturday classes which are given only at the pleasure of the instructor have vanished like the March winds. Sever on Saturdays assumes the hollow emptiness that has settled upon the Spanish Imperial Palace of late days...
...hole through the girl's ribs and stuck an aspirating needle into the "blister." No fluid oozed through the needle's lumen. The professor poked again. Unexpectedly bright red blood spurted from the hollow needle. The "blister" was really an aneurism, a bulging of the girl's weak-walled heart, and he had ruptured the heart. Her blood was flooding through the rent...
...communities of America might attract attention by changing their names to ones suitable to their conditions. We suggest the following: Bare Creek, Empty Dinner Pail, Starving Children, Ragtown, Tattered Clothes, Hooverhit, Jobless, Empty Belly, Depression, Moaning Widows, Too-Weak-to-Weep, Turnip-greens, Nogrub, Patches, Mounting Debts, Sunken Eyes, Hollow Cheeks, Hungry Guts, Rickets, Scurvy, Pellagra, Last...
...English version first. And thank the good Lord he had. At least he knew where and when to laugh, and just how hard. Melrose and the Boston Latin School were obviously impressed; the Vagabond had regained some of his lost prestige, though some sceptics may call his victory a hollow one. Now the Vagabond refuses to be called insular and provincial. He is willing to hold forth at great length on the cultural stimulus received from a closer liaison with the cinematic art of Europe, an art free from the sullying trends of Hollywood commercialism so the critics...
...comics burlesquing grand opera stars. Their voices are not bad but they sing as loud as they can all the time and the recording makes the results even worse. The orchestra utters metallic clickings, moans sepulchrally in the lower register, makes the upper notes shrill and hollow...