Word: weeping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ragweed began to ripen and send its pollen (ten billion grains to the plant) into the air last week. In consequence, some two million peculiarly sensitive residents of the U. S. began to snuffle & weep with their annual attacks of hayfever. New York City, Chicago and smaller communities hired men to pull up every stalk of ragweed within city limits. For one day's pulling Chicago paid 25? and a ticket good for a week's room & board in a charity shelter. Sales of home air filterers perked up. If his sleeping quarters are free from dust...
...magnas and they have tried for C's. They have lived for four terribly short years in the richest, greatest, most impersonal, greatly loved, best known, most revered, finest University in America. And now they are graduating. Four days of foam upon a charted ocean. Who would not weep for Adonais...
...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...
...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...
Forty-one women to weep for one hour @ $10 each...