Word: wept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Observe this long-nosed personage with night-life in his narrowed eyes, eyes that have wept for the broken Virgin, eyes that have faced battle, caressed and lusted, heavy with cupidity, glazed with surfeit, once expectant as the sky in May. . . . He is a type of Frenchman not yet extinct nor likely to be extinct for centuries." So does Historian Francis Hackett introduce his latest hero, Francis I. Author Hackett's 448-page tome is compendious and scholarly but he does not believe that "history should be blonde-proof"; not simply dignified names and dates but Francis' blondes...
...Marie Louise Reynolds. Miss Reynolds, who studies journalism at night at Loyola University, was described by Col. Rickenbacker as a stowaway. His story: Stowaway Reynolds, 17, boarded the plane to interview Col. Rickenbacker for her college paper. She forgot to get off, was discovered after the takeoff. Reproached, she wept. Col. Rickenbacker succeeded in comforting...
...Randolph Hearst as managing editor of the gaudy tabloid Daily Mirror. To practically all of the Herald Tribune's staff it was a disruptive shock. Stanley Walker had built up the ablest staff of newswriters in the city. They, in turn, fairly idolized him. More than one actually wept into his beer at the prospect of a city room without City Editor Walker. That loyalty was a contributing factor in Stanley Walker's decision to quit. He had never been able to get the Herald Tribune to pay his bright, hard-working young men what he knew they...
...find herself face-to-face with Wife Tinti. ''An eye for an eye," screamed the widow, "a tooth for a tooth." Then abruptly she slumped, sobbing, into the other's arms. 'I am sorry. I am sorry." moaned the wife. Closely embraced, widow and wife wept together...
Tramp, tramp-the thick-soled, high-button shoes of Norwegian Deputies carried them into the Nobel Institute last week. Some of them wept large, mild Norwegian tears last year when Premier Mowinckel announced that Norway accepted the sentence of the World Court which took from her East Greenland, gave it to Denmark (TIME, April 17, 1933). For this act of Christian resignation, most Norwegians think, Premier Mowinckel ought to have received the Nobel Peace Prize. Instead last week Johan Ludwig Mowinckel was charged with the chore of presenting the 1934 Peace Prize to a Briton who has done his best...