Word: weeps
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Scottish singer: "From West Virginia I wrote in support of Sunday observance in England: 'I am against Sunday theatre shows and have told my fellow artists if we fail to uphold our religion and our Sunday, men will scorn us, women will weep for us and children will be taught to hate the name of the theatre, and the curses of generations to come will be forever at the stage door. Men who disregard God's word and God's work can never hope to be respected. When for the first time I came to America I had four Sunday...
...this a gentle luxury to weep That I have not the cloudy winds to keep...
...Blaise Cendrar's "Sutter's Gold." Throughout this tale of Sutter's truly Munchausian career the author in an attempt at sustained tenseness fails to appreciate the differentiation between fact, exaggeration, and fiction. The result is a hodge podge unique, but not altogether barren of interest. The economist might weep over two hundred dollar onions, or choke over a thousand dollar glass of water; the geologist might be alarmed over finding talc, even in California, to be a staple plantation product; but even the stylist would be intrigued by mountains "teaming with gold and platinum...
...modern streets, an anachronism, with a bad leg. So when those who out of generosity and victory donate to the Army of Salvation, it must be hoped that this grand old man and grand old horse will stir an occasional tear. One need not wait until Freddie fails, to weep o'er his prostrate white form in the Sterne mannerly one may do it now. A bas the motor car. Freddie is eternal...
...Earl's wife, Margot Asquith, she of the sharp features and biting tongue, could not control her emotions, sobbed. At last, as numerous members of the audience began to weep, that iron-hearted Liberal, Viscount Grey of Fallodon drew forth his handkerchief and wiped his eyes...