Word: sobbingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Appearing on sports pages along with pictures of himself, interminable sob stories, compliments from New York's Mayor LaGuardia, statistics of his life earnings, and his adopted daughter's views on Paris fashions, this letter last week contained the gist of a story that has preoccupied U. S. sports editors since the baseball season ended last October. It was George Herman Ruth's answer to the offer...
...Oregonian's 92.500 readers understand what had happened to their newspaper in the past month. Still dazed were they from that November morning when they saw. for the first time, a picture at the top of Page One. It illustrated not a world calamity but an ordinary sob-story...
Some 50 crack reporters, sob-sisters, cameramen, ranging from the august New York Times to the Polish Everybody's Record jammed the press tables in Luzerne County Courthouse at Wilkes-Barre. Most conspicuous of all was the hulking, white-crowned figure of Author Dreiser. Rip-snorting Publisher Julius David Stern, who has been trying to transform the ancient New York Post into a wild-&-woolly liberal sheet, had hired Dreiser to cover the trial for the Post, the Philadelphia Record, and a syndicate string. Author Dreiser was also covering for Mystery Magazine...
...would take two hours to eat a meal. And with no logic at all would he shriek, sob, laugh...