Word: sobbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from this fast and loose international set were unremittingly pursued by King George and Queen Mary, one of their methods being to send Edward of Wales on the longest possible Empire tours. A predecessor of Mrs. Simpson remembers how H.R.H. left her for one of these tours of duty, sob bing bitterly, and she has the innumerable cablegrams he sent her while abroad, many dealing with the daily doings of the little dog she gave him to remember her by. Some $100,000 was fruitlessly spent at Queen Mary's order in doing over Marlborough House...
...isolation, sometimes symbolized by thought of distant places, the winds blowing over the plains of Siberia or Montana, sometimes by thoughts of Angkor Wat, "the lost cities, deep in the dead dark, no thought, no memory," sometimes by evocations of the end of history, when only birds will "sob for the time of man," sometimes by a vision of utter desolation...
Notable at the Whiteman-Philadelphia concerts was a tone poem by Ferde Grofe called Tabloid, scored for orchestra, electric siren, four typewriters, eight revolvers. According to City Editor George Clarke of the New York Mirror, who wrote the program notes, Tabloid had representations of comic-strip characters, a murder, sob sisters and sport writers at work, a whole newspaper going to press. Critics found Composer Grofe's latest work exciting but unmusical, liked best Mr. Whiteman doing good reliable Gershwin. Two nights later the Dell season officially opened, with the audience cheering Beethoven's Eroica as done...
...much publicized and gushed-over, by sob sisters, Peggy Ann Landon, in a Cleveland restaurant famed for its good, high-powered beer. Wonder what bone-dry Kansans think of this...
Died. Winifred Sweet Black Bonfils ("Annie Laurie," "Winifred Black"), 73-longtime Hearstling, first and most-famed U. S. newspaper sob sister; of apoplexy following diabetes and shingles; in San Francisco...