Word: wept
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wagner himself was calm, sat gazing stodgily at paunched barons, at fierce mustachioed warlords, at old Emperor William I who wiggled. Emperor William's back itched. This time barons ceased their chit-chat as from the orchestra swelled forth the great chords, low symphony of Das Rhemgold.Wagner tensed-wept in ecstasy as nothing could check storms of frenzied applause. . . . One midnight, seven years later, King Ludwig rode on a black horse alone to Wahnfried, bowed in a garden over the tomb of one of the world's greatest dramatic composers...
Many a Peruvian wept in silence, many another sobbed aloud, as José Santos Chocano, "The Poet of America," the literary idol of Peru, was sentenced last week to three years' imprisonment for killing one of his enemies in what he alleged to be self-defense. While his countrymen sympathize, callous-minded foreigners may think that for José to have reached the age of 51 and have thus far escaped assassination or the gallows is a miracle...
Orthodox members of the fashionable Parisian Cercle de I' Escrime (Fencing Club) all but wept last week as two of its members settled an affair of honor with four-ounce boxing gloves. "Duelist" Schapira, a prominent Swiss resident of Paris, easily cuffed into submission his adversary, M. H. Tersieff, a onetime boxing champion of Roumania. While members of the Cercle were deploring the "execrable dueling form" of both men, a despatch from Bucharest announced a duel still more scandalous...
...equal rank, who had befouled her name while in his cups. When they faced each other accompanied by seconds, in a wood near Budapest, he stripped to the waist, according to the Hungarian dueling code, and demanded that she do likewise. When she refused he laughed, departed. Vexed, she wept...
...Vexed, a would-be duelist wept...