Word: hollowness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...build up a picture of your own with your mental eye. Thus, when he describes the opening scene: "A Saturday afternoon in November was approaching the time of twilight, and the vast tract of unenclosed wild known as Egdon Heath embrowned itself moment by moment. Overhead the hollow stretch of whitish cloud shutting out the sky was as a tent which had the whole heath for its floor," the Vagabond gets one definite mental picture, while you may get an entirely different impression. Vag's mental picture of tents is always biased by a very rainy camping trip last summer...
...Congressional critics of WPA needed a shining target to shoot at in the coming session, Aubrey Williams, the gaunt, zealous, wavy-haired, hollow-eyed social worker who is Harry Hopkins' Deputy Administrator, last week supplied one. Mr. Williams makes speeches extemporaneously or from rough notes. He is the man who last summer blurted at the Workers' Alliance to "keep your friends in power" in the elections. Last week, addressing the Southern Conference for Human Welfare at Birmingham, Ala. (see p. 13), where he used to work in a store, Deputy Williams was heard...
Like her mother, Baby Annabelle never talked, but when the two were alone they would communicate in sign language. Addie Belle gave small thought to her own hollow cheeks and stringy hair but she brooded long over the bowed legs of her pretty, undernourished child. Several months ago she summoned all her courage and fled with six-year-old Annabelle to the office of Dr. Robert Lemon Eastman. Trembling with fear, she pointed to Annabelle's legs, indicated that she wanted Dr. Eastman to straighten them. The surprised physician examined the child, later went to Columbus to tell psychologists...
Blue-eyed, ruddy and broad of gait, Publisher Lane likes to loll around his new ranch (Quail Hollow) near Santa Cruz in a silk shirt and sombrero. His wife is president of the Palo Alto Garden Club. He has one rule for successful publishing: "Never miss an issue...
...years, while his companions were out in the breakers diving for pennies and old shoes, Kialakihooey practiced skiing on the slopes of Waikiki's sand dunes with a pair of skis he carved out of an old hollow log. "I never was like other boys," he mused dreamily...