Word: wept
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Early this month, the Singapore Supreme Court ruled that Bertha, Dutch by nationality and Roman Catholic by baptism, should be returned to her parents. By British law, she was under the age of consent and therefore her marriage to Mansur was annulled. The girl bride wept over the verdict. "I am a Moslem," she wailed. "I don't want to go to Christian parents." She turned to Che Aminah. "Mother, what can I do?" The Malay woman fainted...
...handwriting expert who solemnly testified that Williams' 18-year-old daughter Evangeline had written the letters, just to protect her father. When he heard his daughter falsely accused, for the first time Williams seemed to lose his assurance that he would finally be vindicated; he sat down and wept. But two other handwriting experts said that Evangeline could not have written the letters; the judge agreed to give Williams a new trial...
...Wept When Flock Fell...
Grandmother Wept. Not until a few weeks ago, ten years after the golden opportunity had first been offered, did one victim finally think of going to Detroit to check up on the great Ford share-the-wealth plan. When he got home, he went to the police. A few days later, the cops caught Marie Fuller impersonating the baritone "Benson" over the telephone. They raided her apartment, found stacks of spurious Ford Motor Co. stationery and the records of the conspiracy: $1,300 from one 66-year-old pensioner, $81,000 from the plumber, $110,000 from two farmers-more...
Last week Marie, her husband and three other men were indicted by a grand jury on charges of bilking their neighbors, and the state's attorney began trying to untangle the knotted threads of the great Ford swindle. The beauty operator wept. "I've lived in terror the last two years," she complained. "My life has been a hell...