Word: hollowness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pretty sight are those dying or dead from cholera. The disease, like typhoid, attacks the bowels, causes stupendous loss of body fluids. The whole body becomes covered with dank moisture. Cheeks become hollow, noses pinched, eyes sunk, voices husky. Death's rigor sets in quickly. Muscles become literally hard as wood. Sometimes a stiffening corpse jerks about, may kick out a foot, wave an arm. flap its jaws, roll its eyes...
...Revenue Bill the oil and coal duties but stood out against the copper and lumber items which were gotten in by similar methods. Into his mouth during the 1930 tariff fight Democratic Pressagent Charles Michelson put many a thunderous phrase against the Hawley-Smoot Act which today sounds hollow and insincere. He has also been active for Federal relief for the growers of dark tobacco in his State...
Phar Lap was not stuffed. Jonas Brothers, New York taxidermists, used his skeleton as the armature for a sculptured clay model. From this they made a mold. Like a sculptor who transfers his clay model to bronze, they transferred theirs to a specially treated paper, hollow and light but strong. On this the skin was stretched after chemical treatment to insure the permanence of its lustre. Many a wild beast has been mounted in this manner, but Phar Lap was the first horse. Sysonby, great racehorse of 25 years ago, was stuffed, is now in Manhattan's American Museum...
...Hopi Indians and rattlesnakes. From my experience with the great Florida diamondback rattler, timber or mountain rattlesnake, as well as with the Seminole Indians with whom I hunt, no person, white or Indian, is immune if a large rattler, with its venom sacs filled, injects this poison through its hollow fangs into your body. Personally, I do not believe the Hopi Indians are immune or have an antidote which can be successfully used after the dance, as rattlesnake venom works swiftly into the circulatory system, especially when the blood is circulating faster through exercise. I am led to believe...
...wake. For George Walker's funeral at St. Patrick's Cathedral most of Tammany Hall turned out as mourners. The ceremony and crowds were more a tribute to the Mayor than to his unknown brother. At the interment in Long Island City the Mayor looked wan and hollow-cheeked...