Word: wept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Francisco, he was tanned, seemed fully alert despite his 52 years and nearly a generation behind bars. His "prison heart," a nervous cardio-vascular affliction, did not appear to bother him, but in the general excitement he could not keep back the tears. "I'll be all right," wept Tom Mooney. "It's the shock, coming back here?back to San Francisco where it all happened...
Many of the 50,000 women wept as they cheered, and Herr Hitler himself seemed on the point of tears as he concluded: "When my day comes I will die happy that I can say my life has not been in vain. It was beautiful because it was based on struggle...
...Cronin's account of the flooding of the mine, the death of Father Fenwick and one of his sons who are trapped in a dry shaft between miles of water and rock. In a party that included a 15-year-old boy, a religious fanatic called Jesus Wept, a football player and drunkard, the men waited for death, the fanatic shouting verses from Revelations and the football player keeping track of the days so he would know if he had missed his chance to play in his team's big game...
...wish to make it plain, however, that we are not here in the interests of any banker in the U. S.," announced Senator Wheeler on arrival. But the Montana Democrat, who championed the "death sentence" for utility holding companies without a qualm for stockholders, almost wept for "the small investors who put their life savings into the Public Works bonds because of their confidence in Cuba's honor & integrity...
That night over a nationwide hook-up Senators. Congressmen, aviation and radio celebrities joined in a memorial broadcast to two of Oklahoma's favorite sons. Big, tough Colonel Roscoe Turner wept into the microphone. In Fairbanks Author Rex Beach said: "This is the blackest day Alaska has known." In Wall Street the stock of Fox Films, which had just agreed to pay Will Rogers $8,000 a week, sold off 1 1/4 points...