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...Attleboro, Mass., a cinema performance last week made one Violet Miguel, 17, weep. By the time she reached home she was crying hysterically. Rugged household ministrations did not quiet her. Dr. Earl Russell White, 36, was called. He could not stop her. She sobbed all that night, all the next day. Thumping her swollen nose did no good, nor slapping her slobbered face. After five days narcotics stultified her. When she awoke her crying hysteria was over. Said Dr. White: "If she holds the record for sobbing, I hold it for loss of sleep...
...weep for you", the Walrus said...
...defense reeked with sentimentality and patriotism. Lawyer Hogan made the women of the jury weep. Doheny on the witness stand cried easily and often. Frequent were the references to Fall's bad health. Lawyer Thompson tried to describe "a red haired young man" (Doheny) and "a black haired young fellow" (Fall) meeting on the "deserts of the Southwest" when Justice Hitz cut in: "The color of Mr. Doheny's hair is not in evidence. Please follow the evidence." Lawyer Hogan made an impassioned plea for the jury to send Fall "back to the sunshine of New Mexico." Remarked...
...courtroom walked Mme. Rolland last week, the hideous burns on her face half-hidden by a bandage. "You thought that you would blind me!" she cried pointing an accusing finger at the "acid bandits" in the dock. "Thank God, I have still one eye left with which to weep-and to identify...
...will be thousands of princes. There is only one Beethoven." About laws of harmony he said: "The rules forbid this succession of chords; very well, I allow it." At weepers over his music he laughed: "The fools! . . . They are not artists. Artists are made of fire; they do not weep." He considered God his only equal. He lived precariously, striding along the Nietzschean tightrope. For all his self-sufficiency Beethoven could "never see a pretty face without being smitten." But a love-affair, he boasted, never lasted longer than seven months. He loved three cousins, his aristocratic pupils, Tesi...