Word: weeps
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...weep copious tear over a pitcher of beer...
...when famed "Annie Laurie" (Winifred Sweet Black Bonfils), first of the expert Hearst tearjerkers, wrote her classic sob stories about "Little Jim," the crippled child of a drunken prostitute, which drew $20,000 from the pockets of sympathetic Examiner readers; and when incorrigible Reporter Eddie Morphy made San Franciscans weep just as loudly over a destitute orphaned Irish family who existed only in his mind...
...correspondents thus far permitted to interview General Jose Miaja, valiant "Defender of Madrid," have mostly been given whispered warnings by his secretary: "Please do not mention his family! Only twice in my life have I seen the General weep-he is most courageous-but please not to mention his family. Hostages, you know! They have been held since the beginning of the war in Morocco, and the General knows that at any moment they may be shot...
...Simple Bookmark, in which the operator by lifting his reading glasses releases a flock of moths who eat a woolen sock which drops a tear-gas bomb which causes a small dog to weep into a sponge whose added weight puts into operation a magic lantern which casts on the book's cover the likeness of a man who has stolen the wife of an angry dwarf who plunges a dagger through the picture and into the book, stopping when he strikes a pet flea who jumped between the pages to sleep when the book was laid down...
...takes a lot to make a Harvard man weep, drunk or sober, and there were some of each crying when the final whistle blew. We hope that Harlow never leaves Harvard...