Word: sobbing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan she developed into one of the most fabulous sob sisters of the gaudy, pre-War journalistic era. She covered many a killing in & out of Manhattan, sobbed her way in print through so much murder testimony that a courtroom bromide attached itself to her: "Dorothy Dix has arrived. The trial may now proceed." By 1908, Dorothy Dix's feature ("Dorothy Dix Talks") was appearing daily...
Sweet Aloes (by Joyce Carey; Lee Ephraim, producer) is a good commercial mixture of pseudo-science and sob-stuff calculated to provide a lush, sentimental background suitable to the fragile beauty of British Actress Evelyn Laye, unseen on Broadway since her impersonation of another lady of sorrows in Noel Coward's Bitter Sweet. However, the play scarcely deserves the full ire of Walter Winchell, the New York Mirror's columnist-critic, who commented: "Sweet Aloesy...
...reaches here at 7:30 p. m. My wife was in the other room, but when your speaker reached that incident of the broadcast, his hushed voice drew Mrs. Hinman to the radio, and I heard a sob. Mrs. Hinman was born in Yorkshire, England. I was born, and, for more than forty years, lived under the British flag, and we felt we had lost a friend...
Since the history of the class war is studded with such affrays, most likely the howl sent up by liberal and radical organizations would have soon died in an ineffective sob. But it just happened that the American Federation of Labor selected Tampa as its 1936 meeting place. And it just happened that at the present time, Labor's conservative William Green would like to salve his radical membership. Upshot was that he and Socialist Norman Thomas went into a huddle and the Mayor of Tampa gave Police Chief Tittsworth "indefinite leave of absence" to "investigate the case." First...
...with Brooklynites pushing and shoving to get a glimpse of Rose Samanoff's corpse lying on the pavement. Police reserves arrived, shooed off all but newsmen and one man who leaned against a doorway and wept. Photographer Cranston saw him approach the body, stare in bewilderment at it, sob, put his hand to his wet eyes. Finding a spot where he could get a picture showing automobile, corpse and man, Cranston made two shots. Back at his office later he learned from a reporter that the weeping man was Rose Samanoff's husband who, seeing the crowd...