Word: emotionated
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"Violent Emotion." The next day Pierre Laval shuffled into court, fedora in hand, grey-striped suit hanging loosely from his gaunt frame. He wore a soiled white tie. For two days he testified as the "court's witness."
Mumbled Léon Blum, 73, Socialist Premier of France's Popular Front Government (1936-37): "The Marshal . . . used his personality . . . and his prestige to lead France into shame. ... I call that treason." (Twice Léon Blum broke down and cried. The Marshal, who once tried Blum for...
Censors observed that soldiers, overcome by emotion, usually wasted the first of their three minutes in hemming & hawing.
A stringed orchestra in London's ancient, bomb-scarred Guildhall had just finished playing My Old Kentucky Home. In the sudden silence came the sound of an honor guard presenting arms outside, then the loud voice of an announcer near the door: "The Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary...
"The Washington Tragedy," as it came to be called, kept the name of Sickles green for a generation; the tragedy and its actors have been long forgotten. Edgcumb Pinchon revives them again, in the first biography of one of the 19th Century's most eccentric and notorious U.S. characters...