Word: wept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...might mention that Captain Hannegan (as kind and considerate a person as I ever met) and Dr. Chandler Smith, ship's surgeon, pinched the wild koala on the ear gently and the little bear just sat down and wept...
...Enemies kept screaming that Salengro must be investigated by a Court of Honor but in the Chamber of Deputies fortnight ago, after a fisticuffing, shin-kicking fight, the Deputies voted 427-10-103 complete vindication of the Minister of Interior who was then & there embraced by Premier Blum. Both wept, apparently for joy. Why then did hard-boiled and triumphantly-vindicated Roger Salengro commit suicide last week...
...sister the Princess Royal. Then a crowd gathered outside saw the Queen, her pallid face working with grief, leave the Palace on the arm of her son, after having resided there 25 years. Blue-coated Bobbies saluted, scarlet-clad Palace sentries presented arms, many women in the crowd wept, men cheered in hoarse, choked voices and Queen Mary with a visible effort just managed a slight wave of her white-gloved hand...
...Reed had an audience of less than 50 when he delivered his speech behind closed doors. Before its end he broke down and wept. Joe Ely could not win the Southerners present to support Landon. He had to be content with an enthusiastic agreement to oppose Roosevelt. Ablest work at the meeting was done by Bainbridge Colby, who wrote its resolution declaring that Franklin Roosevelt had turned his back on his 1932 platform, that his administration had tried in every way to strike down "the beneficent structures of Democratic Government." Said the Colby pronunciamento...
...aisle, waved in the Diplomatic Corps and the Cabinet. Next came President Roosevelt on the arm of his military aide and last of all Mrs. Byrns, the late Speaker's two brothers and his only son, Joe Jr., 32. Behind a long black veil, plump Mrs. Byrns wept softly. Across the aisle from her in his front-row seat, President Roosevelt kept his head bowed, his eyes fixed on the coffin. Not even at the funeral of Senator Tom Walsh in 1933, thought observers, had he looked...