Word: wept
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Throughout the trying ceremonies the President and Mrs. Coolidge preserved great self-control. Only at the grave, she wept a little, softly. Several members of the Cabinet-Mr. Hughes, Mr. Weeks, Mr. New-appeared deeply moved. C. Bascom Slemp wept. After the interment, the Coolidges retired to the Coolidge home. Colonel Coolidge was persuaded to accompany the President back to Washington. Mr. Coolidge called his son John to the doorway and marked his height upon the doorframe with the legend "J.C. 1924." On the same frame were other marks for both "J.C." and "C.C." with various years. To these...
...promotion in the Freshman eight and several shifts in the combination crew were noticeable when these two crews wept on the Thames yesterday morning. Barry has succeeded Shurtleff at seat seven in the Freshman boat, resuming a seat which he lost some time ago. The line-up of the combination crew is still very unsettled and shifts follow daily...
...Ahmad, ex-Shah of Persia, was ousted by the Persian Parliament (TIME, April 7), because he had "spent too much of his time debauching along the Riviera." Upon hearing the news, Ahmad wept great tears, "walked around in circles, lamenting his fate in Oriental fashion...
Ahmad, ex-Shah of Persia, seventh of the Kajar dynasty, youthful and rotund, learned last week in Paris that the Persian Parliament had deposed him, that he no longer had the right to be termed Sultan. Depatches stated that the 26-year-old exile "has wept continuously since receiving the awful news; great tears roll down his royal cheeks; he has shut himself in his private suite in his house near the Bois de Boulogne; he walks around in circles, lamenting his fate in Oriental fashion." The Baroness d'Erlanger, former Mrs. Peter Cooper Hewitt, whom he had once...
...many children have wept at the sight of poor little Oliver Twist dragging his emaciated shanks across Dickens's pages to plead for more soup! Or have wailed to see Jackle Coogan doing the same across the silver shest. The modern Oliver asks once and if the soup is not forthcoming, he lets drive at the cook with the soup bowl. At Yale there are five hundred modern Oliver in the freshman class. For some time they have been writing polite protests against the rule that freshmen must eat at the Commons, along with complaints about the quality and quantity...