Word: hollowing
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...What gets most on my nerves is the hollow mockery of it, to raise between heaven and earth, the emblem of Christianity, as a defiance to a fellow citizen, the Executive of a great State. As far as I am concerned, I would sooner go down to ignominious defeat than be elected to any office in this country if I had to have-if to accomplish it I had to have the support of any group [the Klan] with such perverted ideas about Americanism...
...might as well be a perfunctory one-party affair, to save public bother and private expense. With a Republican Congress, an efficient nationwide party organization, good times and peaceful problems to start his record on, Herbert Hoover appeared to have the U. S. more completely in the hollow of his hand than any President since Roosevelt...
FRANCE Off Portugal A fat squat Greek ship, the Aikaterini Goulandris, wallowed slowly, comfortably in the Atlantic last week just off Portugal. Suddenly there was a scraping hollow sound at the hull as though the ship had grazed a wreck or perhaps a submarine. The captain ordered the engines stopped, waited for two hours, saw no wreckage, went on his way. Actually the Greek ship had struck and foundered the newest and best French submarine, the Ondine. A crew of 43 undoubtedly perished...
...bungle, due to an awkward set that forced the ecclesiastical procession into the body of the church, an amateur chorus, a green Scarpia (Lawrence Tibbett), the lack of an organ and the sluggish conducting of Merola. . . . Any unforeseen gap she [Jeritza] would fill with her bloodcurdling shrieks or her hollow whispers; she raved, raced and ranted all over the scene, she trembled like a palsied aspen leaf; betimes she played the accomplished acrobat, and, of course, she sang most of the 'Viss d'Arte' lying face downward, as if praying to Proserpine through a crack...
There was, to begin with, hollow-cheeked, insurgent Senator George W. Norris of Nebraska, where the trip started. He it is who is supposed to guard the Progressive mantle of the late, great LaFollette. The Omaha speech on farm relief received a nod of Norris approval. Of the Denver waterpower speech, Senator Norris said: "... Great! . . . We're up against the greatest monopoly, the greatest attempt at control of great resources, ever undertaken since the days of Jesus Christ!" The Omaha World-Herald, daily newspaper of the Brown Derby's advisor, onetime Senator Gilbert M. Hitchcock of Nebraska...