Word: sobbed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...self-pity, she wanders down to the shore and demonstrates her love of life by buying brandy for a sick bird. By the time the bird dies, Slender Thread has been holding up the line far too long for a film that has nothing on its mind but a sob story...
...Sob-Sisterish Story. During the writing, he consulted often and intimately with Bobby Kennedy and Jackie. He is close to both, and if Bobby ever launches another Frontier, Schlesinger will undoubtedly be part of it. Jackie found him congenial from the first, because of his interest in and contacts with the intellectual and cultural community. Together and singly, they filled in gaps in his information, read his proofs, corrected errors, suggested changes. Almost undoubtedly it was Jackie who told Schlesinger about how her husband "put his head into his hands and almost sobbed," then took her in his arms after...
Saum said that his committee would choose 20 volunteers. Mr. Neil Sullivan, a youth worker at Columbia Point, would then pick ten from among these. "This is not for do-gooders," Sullivan said. "We don't want world-savers and sob-sisters. If you show a kid you care for him, he will care for himself...
...gets jammed up with the rules," he once wrote, "there are always a lot of folks ready to turn on the brine for him. But when some bezark that no one ever heard of gets found out, they rush him off to the sneezer or jail, with never a sob gulped out in his behalf." Yet when two bezarks awaited execution in Massachusetts in 1927, Runyon turned in a story so unsentimental that his editors refused to run it: "They're frying Sacco and Vanzetti in the morning," ran the lead...
...trial judge, Weinman's 86-page decision termed the trial a "mockery of justice." The "inflammatory and prejudicial reporting" of all three Cleveland newspapers-the Cleveland Press, the Cleveland Plain Dealer and the Cleveland News (since purchased by the Press)-continually implied that Sheppard was guilty; one "cheap sob-sister editorial" in the Press, said the judge, "literally screamed" for his conviction. The papers kept running pictures of Trial Judge Edward Blythin (who was up for reelection) and gave him pointed advice on how to conduct the trial. Blythin, wrote Weinman, should have ordered a change of venue; instead...