Word: wept
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...CARROLL MUST SURRENDER" said a modest headline. Some vaguely remember that Earl Carroll, theatrical producer had been convicted of perjury months before; everyone knows he gave the party where Joyce Hawley splashed and wept in a bath-tub full of alleged champagne. A fortnight ago the U. S. Supreme Court turned down his appeal: Producer Carroll must go to Atlanta to spend a year and a day. Gossip said he would pay his own way to Atlanta to keep his appointment with the government on time; the U. S. Marshal's office, left without money to pay his fare...
...charges against Mr. Daugherty will be dropped. He was so moved that he made a speech thanking everybody, broke down and wept. He, 67, blind in one eye, prepared to leave for Washington Court House, Ohio, to visit his 90-year-old mother and "make a living at law practice...
...daughter of mine," yowled aged Violante Companarini at the Court as the child wife of Count Guido Frances-chini wept her woe on the far side of the New Jersey palace of justice. Perhaps she is right. Poor Pompilia may not be her child. At least she is the count's wife. But what was she doing with the youthful priest Caponsacchi on the evening of the twenty-fifth of July...
...rule concerning the servants of the Pope's household. But in 1886 one Teodolinda Banfi became housekeeper for Pope Leo XIII, remained under Pius X, Benedict XV, Pius XL Retired last week by age (65*), placed in a steam-heated modern apartment across from the Vatican, she wept with loneliness, refused luxury in Milan, saying, "He may need my services again." Opportunism. The past week produced loud Episcopal dissent from the Roman Catholic satisfaction over its annulment of the marriage of the Duke of Marlborough to Consuelo Vanderbilt (TIME, Nov. 22). Up spoke first the brave Dr. Arthur Kinsolving...
...England in the 18th Century, many a poet rhapsodized on the noble redskin, wept at the thought that some day no more Indians would live to roam through the American forest primeval...