Word: hollowness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...masses. . . . Mr. Roosevelt's protestations of interest in the forgotten man have brought him just nowhere. . . . The real reason is that the people of the East know about Mr. Roosevelt and gradually have taken his measure. They just do not believe in him. They have detected something hollow in him, something synthetic, something pretended and calculated...
Jubilant was Mayor Cermak at a decision which would put real money into his city's hollow treasury. Said he: "It sets us on the way to a normal financial condition and restores confidence in our securties. ... I make a personal appeal to all who have not paid their taxes to do so at once...
...Hindu, got his picture taken because he wore a picturesque beard, but he was soon beaten. Only 10% of the players used the old-fashioned penholder grip. Their rackets were faced with rubber, not sand or wood. The peculiar patter of the balls sounded like a storm of hollow hail, interrupted by happy squeals of "Good shot!" and "Beauty!" or disappointed grunts...
...required course at Berea; during four years every student must work at least ten hours per week. There are standard courses also, from ABC's to A.B. and B.S. degrees. Visitors to classrooms are impressed with such imaginative hillbilly phrases as: "My home is way up the hollow where the valley snuggles in our little cabin," "I like to read what the goneby men have stored away in their lifetime," "a rage of anger," "the outdoingest feller," "the air from the falls keeps the flowers in motion all the time...
...peasant's arm. From the family attic he stole a mummified arm, scared a schoolboy into fits with it. Childhood came to an end when he was sent off to learn from a priest. On his way home after the interview he passed a dead willow, with a hollow branch that looked like a snake's head. Into the hollow he stuck the contents of his pockets, crystallized almonds, nuts, Eva Veeder's ring. Lacking more, he picked little red hips from wildrose shrubs, stuffed them into the serpent's jaws. Going away he looked back...