Word: wept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...start of the third round Canzoneri whammed a left to the Berg chin-block, hit him under the heart with a right, then straightened his right up to the jaw. Berg stood up at the count of seven and then collapsed. When his seconds brought him to, he wept. Canzoneri, one of those fighters who demonstrate elaborate affection for a beaten opponent, also wept as he shook Berg's hand - from happiness. He was still lightweight champion, and the National Boxing Association promised to recognize him as junior welterweight champion...
While reporters rushed with this news to telephone booths, the Royal family emerged?not from their private car, a hot box had forced it to be disconnected at Avila?but from an ordinary third-class coach. While they were being fawned and wept over by Spanish Royalists, a train pulled into Hendaye from the north. It was jammed with Republican exiles rushing back to Spain, all cheering, talking, smoking, gloating over the pleasant political berths that awaited them in Madrid...
...years ago, welcomed the King & Queen of Spain exuberantly last week. Dapper Prefect of Police Jean Chiappe had his bowler hat pushed over his eyes several times by ecstatic French and Spanish Royalists be- fore the Biarritz express pulled into the Gare d'Orléans. Queen Victoria Eugenie wept again at the unexpected welcome. Nine months ago the Prince of the Asturias, heir to the throne, arrived jauntily in Paris, apparently entirely cured of his haemophilia (easy bleeding) but the strain of the past fortnight was too much for him. White-jacketed attendants carried him from the train...
...this reason accursed Mm. Daudet & Maurras came not as guests but as reporters, slyly laughed up their Royalist sleeves at Luigi Cardinal Lavitriano who performed the ceremony, imparted a nuptial blessing and celebrated low mass while Princess Isabelle quietly wept...
...William, John and Mary Jean) were there and many an oldtime Notre Dame footballer. Pallbearers were members of Rockne's last team: Tom Conley, Tom Yarr, Frank Carideo, Marchmont Schwartz, Marty Brill, Larry Mullins. Outside the church waited mourning thousands, who followed the cortege to Highland Cemetery, wept and prayed as the body was lowered into a grave under the Old Council Oak. where Explorer Rene Robert Cavelier, Sieur de LaSalle, smoked the pipe of peace with the Indians...