Word: weeps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...peering round-eyed, in sadistic ecstasy, while an instructor surgeon, cowled and gloved, removed and lectured upon the guts of a tortured dog. This gruesome spectacle, set forth in all its horrid details in the pages of the more mawkish journals, has induced many a kind-hearted madame to weep into her breakfast dish of tea, has spurred many a feeling gentleman to dash off a letter of protest to an editor. Quite rightly. For however luridly exaggerated by popular imagination, the fact that it is occasionally necessary to cause suffering in one animal in order to save many...
...Alsace. They were French and French they remained throughout the German occupation. They also saw to it that the girls they taught were inculcated with French culture. It was due to their 47 years of ceaseless devotion to their country that a group of little girls caused France to weep by singing the Marseillaise as the first French soldiers into Strasbourg...
...longed to pummel the thick headed Shand. But she knew, she knew what every woman knows. Sentimental drivel? Nonsense. We expect to weep openly and copiously whenever we please. As one of her brothers puts it: "It's that damned charm that does...
...riding-whip over the head of any man who looked askance at it. There were times when, whatever he might fee doing, the memory of Lavinia, vagrant and unsummoned, would bring about him the sense of invisible flowers chilled under webs of cold dew, and a voice would weep and implore in his heart, like the weeping, the imploring, of the fiddles of Todd Hundred. Mastering the longing of his thoughts to lose themselves in the past, he married Lucia Mathews, a lovely and courageous woman, who bore his children and loved him well. His hatred of Gawin Todd never...
Though the younger generation was damned, defended and dismissed as a back number at least two years ago, there have already appeared two plays (Dancing Mothers and The Best People) in which the parents weep and wonder at the antics of their offspring. Apparently the ink of playwriting has not yet exhausted its quota on this topic. There will be others...