Word: wept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that he had been fouled by a punch to the kidneys. He was rushed to the Polyclinic Hospital, via a circuitous route to avoid the hysterical celebrations in Harlem. Meanwhile, millions of Germans, gathered around their radios all over the Reich at three o'clock in the morning, wept into their beer. "Impossible," they wailed when the broadcast was abruptly cut off immediately after the announcement of the knockout. Cafe and restaurant owners, who had been given special permits to stay open until 6 a.m., wrung their hands as their patrons gloomily filed out three minutes after the broadcast...
...This report would substantiate lay testimony about two other dicephalous monsters who lived briefly last century. Ritta & Christina born at Sassari, Italy in 1829, waked & slept, laughed & wept diversely, and caused religious people of the time to debate "whether she had two souls or one." Another Italian, Giovanni & Giacomo, born at Locarno in 1877, could not walk because each head controlled only the leg on its side of the common body. He never learned to place one foot in front of the other...
...pulpit. Drawing out the lots, the bishop saw that the first three were blank, and to three candidates he said: "Thou art free." To the fourth, a hay & feedstore employe named Franklin L. Alderfer, he said, noting that the slip bore writing: "Thou art chosen." Brother Alderfer wept...
...cinema the youngsters perched on the backs of the folded seats until their teacher explained they could be let down. They saw Tom Sawyer, wept when Tom and Becky were lost in the cave, failed to laugh at any part...
...Academy prize-giving was Actress Rainer's second successive Oscar in a three-year film career. She won last year's for her portrayal of Anna Held in The Great Ziegfeld. Sandy, rough-cut Actor Spencer Tracy, recovering in a Los Angeles hospital from a hernia operation, wept when told he had won. Last year's Oscar to Actor Paul Muni (Louis Pasteur) disappointed many who thought Actor Tracy deserved it for a row of consistently fine jobs (among them: Father Tim in San Francisco, Joe Wilson in Fury). When this year's balloting named...