Word: weepingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thousand mark. It is common knowledge that Mussolini is wrestling manfully, though none too successfully, with internal difficulties, of which rising unemployment is but one instance, and that the lira rests on none too firm a foundation. Germany's condition would cause less stoical a man than Hitler to weep. Her trade balance would be justly complimented by being called unfavorable, and her political stability is almost wholly dependent on the extent to which Germans are willing to tighten their belts without resort to revolt. The Saar plebiscite is not yet over, nor is the question of how Germany will...
...then she has become a seasoned, skillful actress, capable of reacting properly to all the stimuli normally experienced by the heroines of cinema. The story of Bright Eyes, following the rule for most pictures tailored to fit stars, is important only for the opportunities it gives Shirley Temple: to weep when she hears that her mother has gone to Heaven; to tiptoe away from her nursery when she learns that the couple she lives with do not like her; to chuckle when an aviator (James Dunn) who wants to adopt her lets her dress in his pajamas; to smile bravely...
Eighteen years ago, Mary Pickford made her admirers weep with Poor Little Rich Girl. The Richest Girl in the World, an adult variation of the same theme, keeps its tongue in its cheek. It is a charming, energetic comedy, which should please the majority of cinemaddicts and offend no one except the Huttons and Prince Mdivani...
...Hollywood thriller. More famed was S-35, which Sikorsky built in 1926 for Capt. Rene Fonck, French Ace of Aces, who planned a non-stop flight to Paris. Loaded with nearly 14,000 Ib. of gasoline, S-35 crashed on the takeoff, incinerated two mechanics. Newshawks saw Sikorsky weep...
...often. And he may even enjoy the irony of his gifts (they took a few millions out of the hundreds of millions he made from the World War) for hospitalization of the war wounded. But probably Eugene Schneider and Francois de Wendel are lovable old gentlemen who weep at a Chopin ballade. If an Advance Angel of Judgment should undertake today to quiz the De Wendels of Eugene Schneider on the others of their business they would unquestionably answer; (a) they didn't invent the passions and cupidities that lead to war, (b)if they didn't supply the demand...