Word: weeping
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Majesty's Government "might" do if actual war broke out. But French Ambassador André François-Poncet got something interesting from the Dictator when Herr Hitler responded to some remarks from the Ambassador by observing: "I trust that no mother will ever have cause to weep in consequence of any action of mine." Henchmen of Hitler whispered that earlier that day he had sent Henlein back to Prague with the smooth advice, "Ask for more-and you will...
...chairs, which produces a wonderful effect of space. There are also no images. There are only framed sentences on the walls (like those in the Hagia Sophia).† One of these sentences reads: "Do not flatter your benefactor." The same woman who nodded approval before to me begins to weep and says: "Then there is nothing left at all." I reply: "I think that is perfectly all right," but she vanishes...
...chic woman beside one of the virgins of the Parthenon, and that will be a sight to burst with laughter or weep with shame; any one of these Indians is a sister of that ancient. . . . The decoration is always simple, taken from familiar things of nature and craft; beauty of hard earth and birds, better than Solomon in all his glory; and put together with an abstract geometry such as only this people after the Greeks of Crete have possessed...
...last week, University of Illinois' Psychology Professor Paul Thomas Young, who had solemnly been keeping track of undergraduates' laughter and tears, produced these statistics: People laugh 400 times as often as they cry; collegians laugh more than 20 times a day. Women laugh less than men and weep three times as frequently. Four times out of five tears are caused by the environment; social contacts are responsible for 98% of laughs...
...once in a while. A number of libraries have the foolish habit of cleaning dirty books, but it is a nasty job, involving an eraser and an elbow. Finally we do think that two weeks is more than long enough for a book to be charged out. We often weep at the distress of the student who finds Widener has a book, and indeed knows where it is, but can't get it for a month. A month is an con in an academic year...