Word: hollowness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Marriage Revealed. Jesse Hilton Stuart, 32, brawny, rambunctious, hill-bred Kentucky poet and short-story writer (Man With a Bull-Tongue Plow, Head O' W-Hollow), farmer, onetime highschool principal; and Naomi Dean Norris, 31, Greenup, Ky. grade-school teacher; in Ashland...
Just out of hospital, after a severe attack of pleurisy, was President Wladyslaw Raczkiewicz, who sat pale and hollow-eyed watching the telegraph poles flash past. A political neutral, onetime President of the Senate in Warsaw, the ailing President leaves nearly everything to his active Premier, suave, resourceful General Wladyslaw Sikorski who chatted busily in the train last week with members of his cabinet, many of whom a few short weeks ago were fleeing impoverished across Poland to escape as best they could...
...have been neither maids, wives nor widows. With the slogan "Legalize and Moralize!" a mass marriage was arranged in Mexico City at the National Stadium, packjammed with approving spectators. Several soldiers' brides carried babes in arms, but outstanding newlyweds were a trim, ramrod-backed officer and his stern, hollow-cheeked wife, who were proudly married in the presence of their brood of five...
Queerest-looking of the lot was Vice President Alexander Hamilton Stephens, one of Georgia's most brilliant lawyers, an admirer of Lincoln and Davis' bitterest foe. Weighing around 90 Ibs., hollow-chested, skeleton-faced, he was so tiny that a fellow-traveler once said to him: "Sonny, get up and give your seat to the gentleman." He read the Anatomy of Melancholy for his violent fits of blues, once cried out: "What have I not suffered from a look!" His good pal was hulking, roundheaded, roaring, witty, Rabelaisian Secretary of State Robert Toombs, great orator and charmer...
...Surgeons. Late for a meeting, he raced up two flights of stairs with a couple of friends. To their amazement, said Dr. Graham last week, the only one not winded by the climb was the doctor with one lung. His healthy lung had expanded, had completely filled the hollow space in his chest cavity...