Word: wept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...party of Communist cameramen swept into court with batteries of klieg lights for the kill. Movie cameras recorded that Communist Alexei Rykov, who succeeded Nikolai Lenin as Soviet Premier (1924), wept in the dock of 21 prisoners as he awaited death, while the great Communist ideologist and "Heir of Lenin," Nikolai Bukharin, onetime editor of official Izvestia, stared dry-eyed at the floor. The, 21 did not know that, so far as could be ascertained last week, the only daily or weekly papers in the world whose editors expressed the opinion that justice was being done in Moscow were exclusively...
Tony, Giuseppe, Marco, Frank, Mabel, Jenny, Stella and Papa & Mama Menchetti wept at 22-year-old Natalino's accident-by-bombing on the road to glory...
...coward; pray heed ere more ye've wept...
...fled up the Yangtze River. The other four-fifths were given enough money to enable them to reach their homes in the provinces, urged to clear out of Nanking amid pathetic scenes. One high Chinese official, educated in the U. S. and a pillar of Chiang's regime, wept constantly as he supervised the packing of his ministry's more vital papers, the others being shoveled into enormous bonfires to prevent their falling into Japanese hands...
Hearing the news, Singer Edith Dahl wept for joy in Cannes, tried to decide which of two Hollywood contracts she should accept. At the last instant she turned down an offer of British Long-Distance Flyer James Mollison, who was sued for divorce last week by his equidistant flying wife Amy Johnson Mollison, to fly her to Salamanca, hurried to Paris to await her husband before returning with him to Hollywood...