Word: wept
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...beaded number and bounced through a happy performance of Gee, but It's Great to Be Again in My Home Town-and into her hit songs. Joni also found time while in Chicago for a sentimental visit to Bowen High School. She hugged her old teachers on sight, wept openly when she sang in her old place in the Bowen High mixed chorus, accepted a bouquet of roses, and got kissed on the cheek, on a dare, by a 17-year-old. For a farewell, Joni reached for the microphone and said: "If it can happen...
...withered right leg was plainly visible to the jury and the tense, packed Manhattan courtroom. Songstress Froman was asking $2,500,000 for damages suffered in the tragic Pan American Yankee Clipper crash in Lisbon's Tagus River ten years ago, in which 24 were killed. She wept softly as she recalled the crash. "I saw flashes of lightning as the plane approached the airport . . . I remember the plane banking to the left . . . I came to in the water. I was under the water. I pushed myself to the top. I called out for help. They came and took...
...whom rarely see the morning light. Even such papers as the Asheville (N.C.) Citizen, which righteously proclaimed on its editorial page that it was proper to "seal off this filthy business from the public view," told its public on Page One the same day: "Call Girl Pat Ward wept at her past today and choked over the names of café society big shots to whom she sold her love...
...Noble wept. "My God," he said in a dazed voice. "My conscience is clear." He was repeating, "Thankful ... so thankful," as he walked outside and vanished in the hurrying and irascible throng on the sidewalk...
Even in Manhattan, where call girls are $1,200 for the dozen, bright-blonde, 21-year-old Diane Harris was a sensation. For one thing, she was noisy. She wept with rage and frustration when the cops arrested her (just in time to make the Sunday tabloids) at an East Side hotel. She kept it up at the D.A.'s office. She bawled steadily and stridently for a full half-hour as she was arraigned as a material witness in the case against Oleomargarine Heir Minot F. ("Mickey") Jelke, who is charged with being a procurer for well-heeled...