Word: wept
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chief of Police Nadossy of Budapest. He too broke down, wept, confessed to having protected the counterfeiters from police molestation. Recovering his usual calm, he dictated his resignation to the many clubs to which he belonged: "I must sever my connections with my friends. I am lost...
...Coolidge attended a luncheon given by the Girl Scouts at "Little House," scout headquarters in Washington. The pièce de resistance was a Vermont turkey, raised, transported, cooked and served by Leona Baldwin, 13, scout of Montpelier, Vt., who afterwards wept in excitement...
...first hours of their three-day honeymoon in Albany she learns her mistake. Brutality. Karl would have wept at her body. The thought fastens upon her until she is able to believe it is Karl with whom she lies, by whom she conceives. Meantime Karl thinks he has learned his mistake. Drinking heavily, he prostitutes his Crucifixion theme, twisting its sonorous measures into hip-hitching, gold-getting jazz tunes, publishes anonymously...
...race track as a ride last week. My record as a seer, hitherto 100 per cent perfect, was dealt a crushing blow 'When the last tick of the telegraph told me that Pennsylvania had beaten Yale, I, though I am a real man's man, sat down and wept like a child. For I, the ne plus ultra forecaster (pretty erudite, that) had missed. I had broken faith with my public. Such are life's tragedies...
...they went dangling into eternity. They were the men convicted of the murder of the British sirdar, Sir Lee Stack (TIME, Dec. 1, 1924). Six of the men, all youths, went bravely to their doom. The seventh an older man, able lawyer, brains of the conspiracy, struggled and wept. An eighth man, convicted, had his sentence commuted at the last minute because he had confessed promptly after his capture and had facilitated the capture of the others...