Word: hollowing
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...edging unaccountably under this wild and high hurrah certain skeptics have discerned a hollow note. A minor note to be sure, and one that detracts only slightly from the aggregate rejoicing. Yet this note is sufficient to persuade these sceptics that They Knew What They Wanted is not a great play and that the performance of Mr. Bennett is undeserving of hysterical superlative. Of the performance of Miss Lord too much can scarcely be said, and therein lies the situation...
...formed a "poison squad" of volunteers-12 gallant youths from the clerical force who swore to eat nothing beyond the curious diet he daily administered to them. He fed them on advertised foods that contained boracic acid, sulfates, benzoates, formaldehyde; he watched their cheeks grow lean, their temples hollow, their skins turn the color of whey. He watched the falling off of their flesh, the softening of their bones; and he tabulated the results. His principle postulated two theories-1) that food should not be in itself poisonous, 2) that it should be mixed with nothing that was not demonstrably...
...have a look at the "spindle-legged" and "hollow-chested" American youth who at this moment adorns the garages and boulevards of Cambridge because he prefers the broad highway to the gridiron, or diamond. It is easy to see that the automobile owners at Harvard come, as a rule, from the wealthier prep school element, since high school men being more studious have less time for joy riding. It is in the prep schools that athletics are compulsory and it is from there that most of Harvard's great athletes come. You will find, therefore, that the prep school...
Apparently Coach Knox has little sympathy with the younger generation and its twentieth century mode of life. Terming them a "spindle-legged and hollow-chested" lot, he continues in his denunciation of the present "jazzworn" youth of America...
...Parents and preparatory schools are responsible for the frivolous, spindle-legged, hollow-chested physiques of the younger generation," he said, "No one should be allowed to have an automobile at college. Athletics should take the place of joy rides...