Word: hollowness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Guiding them was Franklin Pierce McCall, 21, a hollow-eyed "cracker," part-time road worker, truck driver and tomato packer, son of a Nazarene preacher. He and his wife used to lodge with Skeegie Cash's parents. He knew the child well, and knew how much money James Bailey Cash, the father, had in the bank-just about $10,000, the sum asked for in ransom. McCall had professed great sympathy for the bereaved parents, had joined the first searching parties. But Mr. Cash's brother and sister-in-law grew suspicious of him when: 1) he "found...
...Whose latest book (THE SINGIN' FIDDLER OF LOST HOPE HOLLOW-Button, $2.50), a biography of her colleague, Fiddler Setters, was published last fortnight...
Some years ago a scientist walked out into a Baltimore park to take a picture. His fertile brain and nimble hands had produced a "fisheye lens," a hollow hemisphere of glass filled with liquid, which would focus a sweep of 180° on one plate. He decided to place himself beneath a bridge, photograph the underside of the bridge's arch from horizon to horizon. By the time he had finished setting up his mysterious-looking device, he had attracted a large crowd of gawpers. He snapped his picture, looked up with an expression of horror, cried...
...March. Then the Government's desterilization program and the fall in commercial loans, gave bonds a rally quite unlike anything stocks have enjoyed, and the average jumped to 88, has since steadied at 85. Despite this pleasant development, the annual frolic at the Sleepy Hollow Country Club which Wall Street's bond traders enjoyed last week, cost them no sacrifice; for bond buying, like stock buying, is in the doldrums...
...seals, and at length for pure enjoyment, and they disclose a skill in workmanship and a knowledge of animal forms that is astounding. Many are cut on a curved surface so that the minute figures, such as the youth riding a dolphin, appear on the inside of a hollow no bigger than a walnut shell. They were signed by their artists, whose names were classed by the Greek writers with those of the great sculptors...