Word: hollowness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...proclamation of last week's other new monarch, Leopold III of Belgium. But the Japan that picked him from the Chinese discard ten years ago has not paid his bills for nothing. Japan needs him as a symbol before the world of Manchukuo's independence, a hollow-eyed figurehead to distract Manchurian peasants with the pomp of a royal court...
...English Literature, Emeritus, has recorded a description of Emerson's last days in Concord, taken from his latest book and also a part of Thackeray's "Born Diamond." T. S. Eliot '09, former Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry has recorded readings from his own poems, "Gertion" and "Hollow...
...winter edition of the New York Social Register gave the address of Mr. & Mrs. Curtis B. Dall as No. 49 E. 65th St., the President's town house. Last week the Social Register issued a "Dilatory Domicile" supplement of new addresses, gave for Mr. Dall: "Panache," Sleepy Hollow Rd., North Tarrytown, N. Y.; gave for Mrs. Dall, The White House, Washington, D. C. Son-in-law Dall was last a White House visitor last April...
...kitten. The America had a bag 228 ft. long filled with hydrogen generated from sulphuric acid and iron filings. She carried a long control car, the keel of which was a cylindrical fuel tank. From it were suspended a lifeboat and a long cable trailing a cluster of 30 hollow steel cylinders. This last device, called an "equilibrator," was supposed to touch the water, keeping the dirigible at an altitude of 200 ft. If the warm sun should cause the ship to rise, the equilibrator would act as ballast. There were two 80-h. p. engines...
...never fumbles when he clutches at the crossbar. Comic high spot is a mad pianist in "The Concert Party." A lacquer-haired caricature of Negro Singer Josephine Baker, star of a "Little Tropical Revue," wiggles and shakes menacingly. In "The Bullfight," a wilder burlesque than the others, a hollow-eyed toreador fliply kills the bull with super-human mag nificence. Plump, beaming Impresario Vittorio Podrecca adapted his Piccoli ("The little ones") from traditional Italian marionets, hates to have them called marionets or puppets. Charles Dillingham first brought him and his little ones to Manhattan in 1923 when they failed dismally...