Word: wept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dowager Queen Marie of Rumania; and Archduke Anton von Habsburg of Austria, 30, second eldest son of Archduke Leopold Salvator von Habsburg, aviator, onetime employe in a Vienna cinema studio; in the palace of Pelesch, Sinaia, Rumania. Girl & Boy Scouts held the bride's train. Dowager Queen Marie wept immoderately. In the middle of the ceremony one of the tall candles fell off the altar, a brown butterfly fluttered over the bride's head. These were considered ill omens...
...minus Leader Jabotinsky who announced he would take a six-month leave. One Revisionist, Abraham Lang, tore down a blue-&-white Zionist flag because he thought the Congress had "betrayed Zionism's ideals." He was tried last week, suspended from Zionist activities until next December. Abraham Lang wept...
...from the north. With a crash the downpour descended. Women screamed, brave men ran. Their Majesties were comparatively safe under their canopy, soon reached the sanctuary of Holyrood Palace under enormous umbrellas held by gallant Scots, but the Duke & Duchess of York got as wet as any commoners. Debutantes wept unrestrainedly, their best dresses ruined...
Long years ago in London he saw Pinafore with Gilbert in the lead while Sullivan waved an imperious baton over the harrassed base drummer. When Gilbert sang "The Captain of the Pinafore" old men wept, gay youth cheered, and sad matrons forget how poorly the dinner had gone off. If debutantes had existed at that time they would have been heard to utter that highest praise of "Gosh that's swell" as Gilbert juggled the last high note. And once after too much port and Iolanthe the Vagabond went down Pieadilly with a poppy and a lily. Yea, verily, there...
...truths strike home. Shrewdest business woman in pictures, she has been secretly buying her old pictures to destroy them, to wipe out, except in the imagination of future generations, "America's Sweetheart" of 1910 to 1930, the golden-ringleted girl who, in the changing fashions of two decades, wept, smiled, loved, pantomimed in Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Poor Little Rich Girl, Daddy Long Legs, Madame Butterfly. Interviewed last week in Manhattan, Mary Pickford said: "Even the greatest stage artists of the past would seem funny to us now if we could see them as they really were...