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...come. There is music, and silence, and darkness, and a great light, and a throb, and a happy laugh. There is confetti and a band, and tall gentlemen in reds, and blues, and even whites. There are prayers and poems, and songs, and hymns and odes. They will not weep for Adonais...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 6/21/1932 | See Source »

...Police Gazette," in announcing the suspension of next week's edition, has surrendered to Fate at last. Next Saturday, good citizens will buy their tabloids all unheeding, and there will be few to weep. But somewhere on the Styx, the shades that once thronged Rector's, Sherry's, and Delmonico's are remembering their old pink sheet. And in that Nirvana where horses go, many an old jade is tossing his head in memory of the Victorias and four-in-hands...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PINK LADY | 2/12/1932 | See Source »

Forty-one women to weep for one hour @ $10 each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 11, 1932 | 1/11/1932 | See Source »

...Madelon Claudet (Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer) is remarkable because in it Helen Hayes appears in cinema for the first time and because it succeeds in its intention?to make audiences weep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 9, 1931 | 11/9/1931 | See Source »

Something of this triumphant attitude towards life exists in Beethoven's music. His complete mastery, his supreme domination of his late are ever present. And there is surpassing beauty, too. Once on a train a man spied the composer weeping. He shook him by the shoulder and asked if he could be of any assistance. Beethoven shook his head and replied, deaf as he was, "I was only thinking of my new symphony." Too frequently it is the public and not the composer who weep today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 10/15/1931 | See Source »

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