Word: wept
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quarter of a century British racing crowds have shouted themselves hoarse, exulted, wept, torn handkerchiefs and smashed toppers for a bandy-legged, wizened little Irishman who always responded to an imploring "Come on, Steve!" Last week in London, Steve Donoghue, still going strong at 52, announced that this, his 31st year as a jockey, would be his last...
...feel as if I have a holy trust," exclaimed Yehudi Menuhin last week. "The work is so great and so beautiful." Papa Moshe Menuhin revealed that his son had dragged Sister Hephzibah Menuhin to the piano, mastered the concerto in a few days, and "wept with joy" to find that the work justified his faith in the sanity of Schumann's last years. In a lengthy press release Papa Menuhin said that Violinist Menuhin had insisted that nothing but the Urtext, the original unedited "pure Schumann, 100% of it," be printed, for "Yehudi said: 'I ask no special...
Archbishop Mooney, whose friends last week were relating that he wept real tears when directed by the Pope to move on from his old post as Bishop of Rochester, N. Y., immediately took up his new duties, first of which was to install Most Rev. Joseph H. Albers, lately of Cincinnati, as first bishop of Lansing, Mich. The Detroit Free Press informed its readers that the city's new shepherd wished to be addressed, not with the formal "Your Excellency," but thus: "'Good morning, Archbishop!' or 'Archbishop, will you have coffee...
...this remarkable book Mrs. Thirkell gives to a Twentieth Century world which is itself hustling to a Coronation, an accurate interpretation of its great-grandparents, and their times. While society wept over the sentimentality of its men of letters, one alone among them was striving to reform the more ugly aspects of life. Dickens was indeed at work here to wield the powers at his command to raise the lower classes from the degradation and poverty which he knew so well. Not only does "Coronation Summer" paint a portrait of Victoria, her coronation, and her era, but it brings...
...Orpheum is a picture that, besides being filmed in color, is as nice a combination of the tragic and the comic as Hollywood has yet produced. Judging from the reaction of yesterday's audience. Producer Seiznick really has something this time, for the men chuckled heartily, the women wept gently, and everyone enjoyed the show...