Word: wept
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...boys' school. The master spied her, called gendarmes. She fled into a lavatory, jumped out of a window, but the gendarmes pursued her with bullets and she died in a ditch. The leopard hunter who had brought her to the Paris Zoo, looked at her body and wept...
Norman Trevor had little to do as the father but look pleasant: no burden for him. It is even easier for Katherine Alexander (the daughter) to look pleasant. Also, she wept agreeably...
Pennsylvania R. R. is by no means to be forgotten, even if the Van Sweringens' Nickel Plate has enjoyed most of the limelight. The Nickel Plate was quite anxious to acquire the Virginian R. R., and neither the New York Central nor the Baltimore & Ohio would have wept bitter tears at being asked to take it over...
When Gerald Chapman was sentenced last Saturday for the murder of Patrolman Skelly, "strong men cursed and women wept" over his fate, according to all news reports. To the citizens of Hartford where he was tried for his New Britain offense. Chapman was a vivid figure, a notorious bandit, a popular hero whose name was one to conjure with. Eighteen years of crime, the gigantic New York mail robbery, and the cold-blooded shooting of Officer Skelly only added to the glory of his name. The papers played up to him, the people applauded him. When he is hanged next...
...vague statement, and therefore we are sure that lie will not object if we take him seriously, for Harvard, though nowadays surrounded by institutions whose competitions it welcomes, is an outstanding factor in the national life. Were this not done, Harvard might be left in a very parlous condition; wept over as unregenerate by Cardinal O'Connell a short time ago, it now receives lusty buffets at the hands of one whom we take to be not in entire agreement on other matters with his eminence. Here is a dilemma, but escape from it is found in some words...