Word: hollowness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Carter to build others in their home cities. The U. S. asked him to design one for a District of Columbia park. At this point a great idea came to the Master of Fairyland Inn. He patented his special greens, the name "Tom Thumb Golf." Patents for his hollow log hazard and other features are pending. Tom Thumb Golf courses became his private property, to use as he would. And he used them shrewdly. A Mr. J. P. Young of Florida, land of many real estate schemes, joined with him and they started to organize. Regional districts were created...
...With hollow tubes inside their vests, wily Prohibition Agent H. H. Porter and assistants last week deployed on Atlantic City's boardwalk and drank with oldtime beer-hounds. While the beer-hounds drank, Agent Porter and crew put their liquor into their hollow tubes, to which access was available through the top vest-button. When the tubes disgorged their contents, the agents thought the giant Drink would be slain in Atlantic City. They had seen every sign af drunkenness in 15 different bars visited...
...designed by a member of the syndicate, Frank Paine. She has a beam of 22 ft. 4 in. and is unique among cup contenders in that she has no cast-lead keel but carries her ballast in a trough-keel formed by moulding the garboard plates into a hollow space, where lead will be stowed as needed...
...redeemed himself spiritually by sacrificing everything, even life, to his inability to make decisions. Its intention is less to popularize Tolstoy than to strengthen the prestige of Actor John Gilbert, whose first talking picture, His Glorious Night, was a failure. Gilbert declaims Fedya in a resonant, hollow voice, giving in his best scenes a lively imitation of John Barrymore and in his worst a caricature of himself in those pictures in which he made his reputation as the Screen's Greatest Lover. The photography and recording are good, but not the adaptation : Redemption might have been told with more continuity...
...Boston Arena, countless couples pivot and tremble in a din of sobbing cornets and wailing saxophones. . Hollow-eyed and ghastly in the lurid light, they dance day after day. A marathon is on. They must not stop. A pot of gold is at the end of this insane rainbow. Days elapse and a jaded couple poses exhausted and physically shattered before the eyes of a nation to receive a purse of money...