There was a follow-on agreement in 1907, but World War I proved just how hollow that effort was.
John Carpenter's 1992 film Memoirs of an Invisible Man, starring Chevy Chase, and Paul Verhoeven's 2000 effort Hollow Man, with Kevin Bacon, both received negative reviews.
Colbert's departure also reminds us how hollow conservative comedic efforts have been, as they fail to play catch-up in the cultural war of political satire.
He said, "What was I to do with him, bring him back here?" His point was that the congregation had put a lot of thought and effort into hollow walls and hidden cellars in their various cabins and outbuildings, tunnels that started from false-bottomed potato bins and opened up under haystacks a hundred yards away and so forth.
She asked parents and pastors to help stop gay young people from living secret or "hollow" lives "in an effort to be accepted".
His efforts to thwart Ukraine's European future will continue, as will his efforts to hollow out our democracy and replace it with a Kremlin echo chamber, unless the world imposes such a high price for his imperial ambitions that the Russian people refuse to bear it.
"We welcome President Obama's attempt to understand the miseries of nuclear warfare, but this visit rings hollow without far bolder efforts to rid the world of nuclear weapons," said Hisayo Takada, of Greenpeace Japan.
What an irony, given the Administrations determined efforts to hollow out the U.S. military in the next few years.
The congressional signatories warn, "While we welcome the fact that the United States remains the largest supplier of humanitarian aid to Sudan, those efforts are hollow if that aid cannot get to the people who need it most, or if the conflict continues to rage on indefinitely".
But if the hero of The Impressionist is hollow despite all his various efforts at assimilation, it isn't because he is a copy, but because he is copying people who are hollow already.
