Word: hollowness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lord Byron's hollow snake's-head ring, for carrying poison...
...once a year, when he goes to the annual outing of the Bond Club of New York at Tarrytown's Sleepy Hollow Country Club, he gets a laugh out of his plight. His laugh-provoker is the Bawl Street Journal, a bawdy scapegrace parody of the highly reputable Wall Street Journal. Edited by stocky, literate John A. Straley, pulp fiction writer and wholesale representative for Calvin Bullock, investment bankers, last week's 17th annual edition of the Bawl Street Journal (11,000 copies at 50?) was a sardonic reflection of the state of U. S. Business today...
...recent establishment of a fellowship for the study of modern art is a hollow mockery, when the one man (Feild) that can save the department from its past must go." However stimulating a teacher he may be, Professor Feild is obviously not the only man that can improve the department. The fellowship for the study of modern art is not a "hollow mockery" but will certainly help in the consideration of art in relation to the present...
...toothbrush with a hollow handle, through which water can be sucked for rinsing...
...east. The clouds hovered above the harbor like dark birds of prey. A few wild geese muttered with shrill voices among themselves; debating whether to stay or go. Later the rain came, slanting, with an edge. Inside the little cabin the drops knifed against the window with a hollow, drumming sound. In such a storm the bell sounded, there was the clatter of casting off, a seaman's voice rasped somewhere down by the shore...