Word: hollowness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wild Addis Ababa last week Mr. Rickett was not wasting his time. Nor was lean, hollow-cheeked Yankee Everett Andrew Colson, who sat across from Fat Chaps. In 1930 the Ethiopian Government, profoundly suspicious of Britain, France, Italy and all the great colonial powers, asked the non-predatory U. S. to pick a fiscal adviser whom Ethiopia could really trust. Obligingly the State Department supplied a list of young U. S. economists willing to work in Addis Ababa for a pittance more than they could make at home. From the list Mr. Colson was picked by the Emperor, hired...
Sergeant Jurney looked dubiously at his deputies, at the newshawks. "There's a whole crowd in there," he mused undecidedly. Less squeamish, the newshawks put their ears to the door, listened hopefully. Then the door opened and everybody gaped. Out slid thin, hollow-cheeked Presidential Secretary Marvin Mclntyre, followed by Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Lawrence Wood ("Chip") Robert Jr., followed by Amon Carter, Democratic "angel," publisher of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram...
...those pre-Fascist days keen, hard little King Vittorio Emanuele III of Italy had picked hawk-eyed,, hollow-cheeked Baron Pompeo Aloisi as his naval aide-de-camp. Austria's spy net was known to have its spider on Swiss soil at Zurich in the person of a certain Captain Mayer. On the night of Feb. 24, 1917 Spy Master Mayer's safe was rifled by expert Italian cracksmen. For the next three days the Italian frontier was closed to keep Austrian spies from escaping from Italy. They were caught and shot in batches on the evidence provided...
...Jean Harlow in widow's weeds, holding an apple stuck on a knife, against a wallpaper background of orange blossoms. Economy offered Greta Garbo pinching a smartly painted penny and wearing for a hat a sauce pan from whose handle dangled a pair of eyeglasses. Mater Dolorosa was a hollow-cheeked Marlene Dietrich, with heart-shaped buckles on her suspenders, a phonograph record on her head, looking into a magnifying mirror...
...House, Alabama's hollow-cheeked, hard-fisted George Huddleston got a howling ovation when, pleading for "regulation" instead of "vengeance," he ripped into both combatants. "I deplore these outside influences," barked Democrat Huddleston. ". . . Before we had the first hearing on this bill the chairman of our committee [Texas' Sam Rayburn] radioed from one end of the country to the other telling the people how bad the utilities were and how much this kind of legislation was needed...