Word: wept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...what promised to be a dull, routine assignment. The street corner was jammed with Brooklynites pushing and shoving to get a glimpse of Rose Samanoff's corpse lying on the pavement. Police reserves arrived, shooed off all but newsmen and one man who leaned against a doorway and wept. Photographer Cranston saw him approach the body, stare in bewilderment at it, sob, put his hand to his wet eyes. Finding a spot where he could get a picture showing automobile, corpse and man, Cranston made two shots. Back at his office later he learned from a reporter that...
...five minutes the widow of "Wiley Post remained alone in a boxcar at Bartlesville, Okla., wept as she took leave of the crated Winnie May, off to Washington's Smithsonian Institution...
...Greenland natives, customs, scenery. Salamina was Rockwell Kent's housekeeper. In her late 20's, she was handsome, determined, the mother of three children. She pursued the artist relentlessly, carefully tucked him in at night, worried for fear he would freeze, scolded him about her wages, wept readily, was devoted, affectionate, jealous. The artist escaped her long enough to get into an innocent scrape with her rival, Anna, and to enjoy a brief affair with the lovely Pauline, with whom he lived during a stretch of exceptionally cold weather. In the end Salamina married a carpenter...
...were using to hold on monstrous sailor hats. Among best-selling books of the year were George Barr McCutcheon's Beverly of Graustark and Thomas Dixon's The Clansman. In Manhattan, George Bernard Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession was closed by police, while audiences wept nightly at dainty Maude Adams in The Little Minister. Also in Manhattan, a crusading young journalist, who was one clay to record these events and many another of the Century's first quarter, was on his way to recognition as one of the outstanding liberal journalists of the decade...
...Madison, Wis., after his eleventh dancing lesson, Farmer Seymour Moe, 41, stood in a corner of the dancing school and wept because he could not dance. For the seventh time, police came, arrested Moe for creating a disturbance, released him for the twelfth and last lesson...