Word: hollowing
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...that alone are the chosen vessels in which reposes the spirit of Lenin - in Russia Lenin is, in sober truth, a God. In his name Trotsky will certainly plot and and perhaps conquer. After all "Lenin & Trotsky" is a couplet revered by millions to whom "Lenin & Stalin" rings unfamiliar, hollow strange...
...reformer, a church worker and a prohibitionist. Only last week the shareholder had read with satisfaction an account of S. S. Kresge's $500,000 gift to the Anti-Saloon League. Accordingly, he was sure that the alleged misbehavior, although it had remained undenied, was merely a hollow defamation...
...reader it must seem that the long-continued offering of praise and censure and criticism upon the altar of the post-war generation is drawing at last to a close. Companionate marriage may succeed student suicide as a material for headlines, but all such topics begin to have a hollow ring; and when, as in the present instance, they are ignored, and youth is discussed by a competent and seasoned observer, the result is no revelation, but only a personal and far from sensational reaction to a far from sensational state of affairs...
...Furniture:" Hollow and affected is Fur niture Salesman Frankl's explanation and gloss for kitchenet apartment furniture. You, TIME, should have milked down his bloated phrases and said prosaically : "Salesman Frankl sells furniture-with-a-pinched-look. It is acceptable and esthetic because it fits appropriately those pinched crannies of costly New York apart ments." Mr. Frankl's initials made me laugh. His balderdash resembles that of that other P. T. - Barnum...
...surprising fact about the classes, Fradd says, is that while all the men groan under the heavy exercises devised to correct the hollow chests and sagging spinal columns, many of the men ask permission to continue longer than the required six week period. The results of the exercises apparently justify the effort, and some men have reported to Fradd of their own accord during the greater part of a year...