The French Section de Statistique — the Army's intelligence service — had an agent within the German Embassy: a cleaning woman who every night emptied the wastebaskets of the military attaché, Lieutenant Colonel Maximilien von Schwarzkoppen, and brought the torn-up papers to her government.
Most went home Saturday night empty-handed.
The band was nominated for Best New Artist and Best Americana Album but ended the night empty-handed.
"The Grandmaster," from Hong Kong director Wong Kar-was, was a contender for best cinematography and costume design but went home Sunday night empty-handed.
After a night out, empty what's in your pocket into it and let it accumulate.
Life has suddenly become hard in the Big Easy, with many restaurants and night clubs empty, hotels losing millions of dollars in canceled reservations, and Bourbon Street stiller than anyone can remember.
The city seemed to have no outskirts; the bus emerged all of a sudden out of the dark and empty night into the brightly lit, noisy city center.
The music was reduced to a background hum, and the previous night's empties were being ferried to the tidy tip in a series of dustbin bags.
10.15am BST Emily: Last night I emptied the children's lunch boxes by opening them, retrieving a piece of reusable foil from one of them, putting the fruit waste into the compost, and washing them out.
