Word: wept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...went into receivership. Then there arose one of the great scandals of that time. Merchant Siegel was shown to have used funds on deposit with him, to have so falsified his books that expert accountants despaired of ever unravelling them. The next year he went to jail and wept when, because of the smallness of his stature, he was measured for a special suit of prison gray. His second wife, whom he had met when she came to get his Napoleonic story for a newspaper, left him, went to be a War nurse. After serving his ten-month sentence, Merchant...
...Bambergers now decided, with Commissioner Kegel's persuasion, that for over a month they had been nursing the wrong infants. Under the commissioner's approving smile the mothers removed the babies' clothes, which they were certain belonged to them, kissed the infants, exchanged them, wept. When Mr. Watkins returned home from a baseball game he exclaimed: "They took advantage of my wife. . . . I'll sue." The now Watkins baby had been given a Roman Catholic baptism as George Edward Bamberger, the now Bamberger child had been given a Presbyterian christening as Charles Evans Watkins...
...counsel or the privilege of direct statement. Associate Justice John White Preston, a onetime U. S. District Attorney experienced in prosecuting radicals, acted as the court's special prosecutor to examine MacDonald. The little old man, who claimed he only wanted to "clear his conscience," cringed, trembled, wept under the ferocity of Justice Preston's interrogation...
...trial juries. Said he: "Fickert told me if I would stand by the identification of Billings and Mooney I'd get the biggest slice of the reward." Asked Justice Preston mockingly: "You swore this at the time God was judging you to be a liar" MacDonald only wept...
...went down on Jerusalem after the second day of August, and Tisha b'Ab, the Ninth of Ab (Great Fast Day), began,* Jews pious and Jews pugnacious walked warily toward the Wailing Wall. The Wall is a remnant of The Temple. Jews have wept, have recited the Lamentations of Jeremiah there for most of 1,800 years...