Word: wept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...problems of reconstruction and relief before the country are economic problems, not political. No greater danger could befall this nation than to have the American people wept off their feet by political quackery or demagoguery and the promise of prosperity to come which cannot be conjured out of a hat by political legerdemain. Sane, well considered, sound economic thought and action alone can bring a semblance of restoration to our shattered prosperity. In my opinion Herbert Hoover, from every angle by which one might approach this problem, is best qualified to carry out such a course...
...life's only joy to the old couple whose dead grandchild had trained it to perch on their shoulders, peck at their ears. But the old couple thought the bird sang only to ease their mourning, that the cat planned death to their particular bird, that the stars wept for their sorrow...
...Vagabond turned hopefully toward the third, hitherto silent, member of the party. "I never have read the column." The Vagabond pushed away his plate of humble pie and departed, the world in ashes. The cruel words rang loudly in his old ears and when he thought thereon he wept...
...Miss Bourke-White, expert camerawoman traveling free-lance with Governmental blessing, took 800 photographs in Soviet Russia. Artistically in love with her work, she took great pains, gave none. Happy posers said "Thank you" when her shutter clicked; one woman even wept for joy. The Russians "consider the artist an important factor in the Five-Year Plan, and the photographer the artist of the Machine Age." They appreciated Bourke-White. Starting as their photographer she soon became their comrade...
...waving wooden tomahawks and loudly protesting to an imperious voice from the kitchen window, "But mama, we're only burning him at the stake like Indians," because of Mr. Cooper. He did much else besides; wrote several excellent sea stories, a naval history of the United States, and the "Wept of Wish ten Wish" which appears to be a bit whimsy. He was the first great American story teller who set the stage, most regrettably, for a series of other yarn spinners, whose only qualifications were that they had carefully read Cooper. Professor Matthiessen will enlarge upon all this today...