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...tragedy bows to contrivance which teeters on the brink of absurdity; the writing turns from archaic simplicity to perfervid pleading. Unfortunately for her purpose, the characters who seem most alive are the women : the silly, gabbling, pitiable gossip, Mrs. Plopler, and the bereft Sarah, who had wept so much that "the ocean had drained away, and she cried now with only the pebbles on the beach...
...their lives. General George Washington, taken by surprise, galloped down from his headquarters at the northern end of the island (now Coogan's Bluff, overlooking the Polo Grounds). "Take the wall," he shouted. "Take the cornfield." When the militiamen rushed unheeding past him, according to some accounts, he wept, hurled his hat to the ground and roared, "Are these the men with which I am to defend America?" Then for a long time he sat on his horse in a daze, so that the British troopers advancing north from Murray Hill would have been...
...says. "She and my father even used to take me to dances and set me on the bandstand while they danced." He bought her furs and a big diamond ring, and sought her advice constantly. When he toured, she would follow him around the country. When she died, Duke wept in his sister's arms. As for his father, Duke had long since made him road manager of his band...
...same threadbare pajamas, Mohammed Mossadegh walked out of Teheran's Ghassar barracks a free man once more. No crowds were there to welcome him. But Mossy's wife, son and grandchildren were on hand to take the old man home. And when Mossy saw them, he wept...
...Italy, men who helped build Andrea Doria wept for her. At her New York pier, men and women wept for the kin they feared she had carried down. But to Manhattan at evening came Ile de France, first rescue ship to reach port. Slipping upriver to a hero's well-deserved cheers and whistles, the French liner docked, unloaded 750-odd survivors, and prepared to hurry off again that same night towards France. Some 30 of the survivors were gently carried on stretchers from the ship's infirmary down a gangway to waiting ambulances. On the fantail...