Word: wept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mary Garden again sang Melisande at the Opera-Comique. Lili was there and so was the wealthy woman who had taken her husband from her. "I have two seats," the first Mrs. Debussy told Mary Garden. "Claude is here with me." After the performance the two wives met and wept together in Mary Garden's dressing room. For Debussy, as for the world, Mary Garden was his ideal interpreter. In the score of her Pelleas et Melisande he wrote: "In the future others may sing Melisande but you alone will remain the woman and the artist I had hardly dared...
...Neunkirchen's vast ironworks, Countess Sierstorpü. Said she on a visit to London fortnight ago: "The women of the Saar adore Hitler; he is so sweet, so gentle, so kind! All true German women adore him. I once took 60 women to meet him and they wept unashamedly in their emotion. Three things make the Realmleader adorable to the German woman. First, his sublime kindness. Second, his intense patriotism. Third, his standard of truthfulness and sincerity. Ach, you should see his eyes! You should look into them. Truth and sincerity shine in those eyes...
...once. He packed the one brown suitcase that is supposed to be sufficient for Sandroyd boys, put on his belted overcoat and his school cap, got into the car. At the Ritz "Granny," Dowager Queen Marie of Rumania, was waiting for him. Looking even more dramatic than usual, she wept a great deal, but would say nothing beyond the fact that there had been ''an accident, my God, a terrible accident." There was a whispered conference among the grownups, and they took away Peter's school cap. Faithful Mr. Parrott came back in a little while with...
...Eliot and Bulwer-Lytton which lined the walls of the little oak room where he read the Bible every morning and to which was brought his 10 o'clock glass of milk. While Auctioneer William Henry Jones grew hoarse trying to get better prices and Housekeeper Catherine Viles wept salty tears of sadness, bidders and gapers were able to glean from the house's elaborate furnishings how pious Lumberman Long liked to spend his days. At the foot of a marble and bronze stairway was a red plush and Gobelin tapestry sofa (sold to Harry Jacobs...
...recent assassinations in Marseilles are being received by the American press. It appears that the main object of interest with regard to this terrible affair is the story of the Boy-King Peter and how he received the news of his father's death, or how the Queen wept over her husband's corpse. It is strange also that, in a country so democratically minded, interest should be concentrated on glorifying the career of a somewhat doubtful Balkan Monarch to the exclusion of any concern at the calamity which has befallen Europe in the death of one of France...