Word: wept
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...District Attorney Monaghan summoned 23 policemen to his office. They were Capt. Charles Cohen of the 20th & Berks Streets Station, seven sergeants, three detectives, twelve patrol men. For hours Mr. Monaghan was a menacing interlocutor; it was then that he lost sleep. Several of the catechized broke down, one wept convulsively. All were arrested on bribery and extortion charges. Toward midnight they lined up in the City Hall corridors. They marched to jail, ironically led by Capt. Cohen. Amid the boos of jailbirds, the catcalls of more obvious and unashamed criminals, they were debadged...
...built the library, solidly demand the inscription. I have had people come up to me in the streets with their eyes streaming tears pleading with me not to abandon the fight but to remain firm. One of Herbert Hoover's own Wartime posters read: 'If seventy million Germans wept for a thousand years they could not make disappear the human miseries they caused in Belgium and Northern France...
...bucking bronchos of the Wild West films, at which they had been wont to wail untiringly. The triumph of the trimotored plane, the mapping of Pacific air routes-these meant nothing to the 7,000 natives of a remote island. Their three-day marvel was leaving them. They wept...
...Theresa Rummel, 82, sat in a front pew and wept while her son, the Right Rev. Joseph F. Rummel, was consecrated Bishop of Omaha, Neb. Besides Mrs. Rummel, St. Patrick's Cathedral, Manhattan, held a throng of church dignitaries - Patrick Joseph Cardinal Hayes, three Archbishops, eleven Bishops, 49 Monsignori and not many less than 1,000 priests...
...last decade: such as that caused by Mr. Fitzgerald in "This Side of Paradise"; and that of the mysterious Mr. Fabian in his happily titled "Flaming Youth." The difference between these and the Hemingway opus was one of starkness and futility; they were romantic--Hemingway was bitter. They wept copiously at their own naughtiness; Hemingway, dry-eyed and sardonic, merely described the catastrophe and agreed with Gertrude Stein that this was indeed "a lost generation...