Word: wept
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wept Anna, "the little devil Vodka," and she put her arms about great Maria and kissed her sorrowfully on the third button of her great warm vorotneke...
...many months ago, a member of our faculty made the alarming discovery that the sinister hand of Prohibition is reaching out toward, Literature. Those of us who shared his discovery wept bitter tears for that--and other reason. But now there will be even more cause for bitterness, for the good old college drinking song is doomed. The plague has reached the Institute down on the Charles. Tech's "Stein Song" is dead. No longer will the alumni rally round the festive board and sing the song of "a stein on the table". For the stein is no longer there...
...minutes before the game, the Crimson, led by Captain Horween, rushed into the enclosure. Three teams lined up and wept down the field in signal practice. A steady stream of people is crowding slowly over the bridge. Behind the Stadium automobiles stretched parked from inside the baseball field well out to the farthest eastern confines of Soldiers Field. The Tiger's first string line-up pushed through the crowd at the entrance and went through signals. The substitutes followed to the bench...
...first Sinn Feiners; this hall is the hall of Sinn Fein; this country is the first Sinn Fein country, and the Stars and Stripes is the first Sinn Fein flag." Responding to this wanton perversion of historical fact a mob that packed Faneuil Hall to the doors alternately wept, cheered and pounded its approval...