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Another $100,000 fell between two plump divorcees named Mary Markovich and Anna Osojnak while they labored in a Manhattan automat. Straightway, they began to weep and dream of freedom and fur coats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Sudden Violence | 4/7/1947 | See Source »

...blow up a Fascist-held bridge. In this tiny, heroic effort, to no ultimate use, they succeed-and are destroyed in the attempt. In slow streams down the rocky mountainside, which are like the streaming of the nation's blood, the people of the region gather to watch, weep and salute, as dead and wounded airmen are brought down from their high disaster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 3, 1947 | 2/3/1947 | See Source »

...decided, "to take the curse off this death racket. A place where you go to see the last of your earthly companions should be a happy place; it should leave you with the feeling that death is no curse, that all is not lost because of it. People will weep, of course, but give them a lift with beauty. Put living things around; flowers that grow, not bouquets that smell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Happy Mortuary | 1/27/1947 | See Source »

...also the worst year for Jerusalem's Jews. A few Jews still chanted against the ancient grey-brown Wailing Wall: "Because of the Temple which is destroyed, because of the walls which are broken down, because of our greatness which is departed . . .we sit alone and weep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: The Promised Land | 8/26/1946 | See Source »

During his first song, Handel's Let Me Weep, Lord!, De Luca wept. So did most of his audience, for the great baritone voice had lost none of its splendor; if anything, it was even more musical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: How Do You Do | 3/25/1946 | See Source »

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