Word: hollowing
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...bleaker still if he is a lavatory man employed by the U. S. Government. Nor are lavatory men alone in their exigency. Federal attendants of all sorts, guards in zoos and biological gardens, seneschals in museums and the gray-faced individuals of nameless profession who patrol at intervals the hollow echoing corridors of public libraries ? all are underpaid, all are overworked...
Before the nodding copse, tangled in its phylacteries, her cry of guilt was the hollow hooting of a nameless bird in a field of desecration. The Kravno women of Israel lamented her madness. That such a year should come upon Serra Golda, her popular grocer-mother...
None so humble and strict in her pieties as hollow-breasted Leah, penitent Jewess. The wicked willows saw her live black hair hacked off. Come Yom Kippur, she fainted with fasting. After a year, pale, pious Eli from the yeshiveh (seminary) brought her to peace...
...election held last Saturday, the Harvard chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa elected the following Seniors to membership: Bernhard Goldman Bechhoefer, of St. Paul, Minn; Philip Wigglesworth Chase, of Milton; Charles Franklin Dunbar, of Cambridge; Robert Maurice Davidson of Brooklyn, N. Y.; Hugh Langdon Elstree of Preston Hollow, N. Y.; William Alexander Grimes, of Catonsville, Me.; Saul Wallenstein Jarcho, of New York, N. Y.; Victor Harris Kugel, of New Haven, Conn.; Morris Marden, of Winthrop; Prescott Clifton Mabon, of New York, N. Y.; Henry Reiff of New York, N. Y.; Irwin Rosen of Lowell; Albert Eberle Schwartz, of Cincinnati...
...Bryan is beyond doubt a very clever man, and in some ways as powerful a speaker as one could expect to hear. But last Friday evening he seemed essentially an expert juggler of fallacies. His reasoning was hollow. However eloquently it was presented, its convincing power wears off the more one thinks of it. His three main accusations against the Theory of Evolution were that it was silly, a mere guess, and a menace towards the Christian Religion...