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Word: weeps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...glory of their age must leave their royal master. Sportsmen sigh, men of fashion are beginning to attend automobile shows and shop girls sob. Everywhere are heard encomiums tinctured with the sorrow of seeing the brilliance of the present fading into the obscurity of the past. Great metropolitan newspapers weep by the column for the glory that once shone on these princely steeds. The world is mourning and grimly faces the dark future...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HIS HORSES FOR A KINGDOM | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

...clock at the Repertory Theatre, Boston. The program, featuring Christmas music, follows: Christmas Music 1. Good News from Heaven Bach 2. Two Carols Warlock 3. A Carowle for Christmas Day Byrd Two Madrigals and Two Rounds 1. The Nightingale From Pamelia 1609 2. Oaken Leaves From Pamelia 1609 3. Weep oh mine eyes Weelkes 4. Come Sirrah Jack Ho Wilbye Hecula's Lament Bolst Three Choruses from Secular Cantatas Bach Conductor G. Wallace Woodworth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Girls Sing | 12/6/1928 | See Source »

...Scandinavian dialogue men, Olsen and Johnson, comprise the best patter team this reviewer has heard since Joe Brown and partner forsook the Follies for the films. They weep while reciting successive nifties and Mr. Johnson flings himself at the floor with frequent heart-broken abandon. One that panicked the cash customers started: "What would you be if your great-grandfather was a thief, grandfather was a thief, and father was a thief...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 11/30/1928 | See Source »

Although the year has been so good to Jews there are private sins and old religious woes to weep over. And this the communicants will do ten days after Rosh Hashonah -on Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement), which begins at sunset Sept. 23. It is a vigil of fasting and repentance, to be concluded with the cry: "May he who maketh peace in his high places, make peace for us and for all Israel; and say ye, Amen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Holy Jewish Days | 9/17/1928 | See Source »

Miss Calkins reflects a keen curiosity in human reactions. "Queens weep like simple women"-but why, what have queens to weep?. Yet she knows

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Verse | 7/16/1928 | See Source »

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