Word: wept
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...this doleful headline, the Liverpool Daily Post last week welcomed back 50 English war brides, who had tried life in Canada and found it wanting. As the liner Cavina was warped into the Liverpool dock through dank, grey mist, the homesick homecomers clutched their children and wept...
Joachim von Ribbentrop wept repeatedly while he saw his wife for the last time. Ernst Kaltenbrunner desperately tried to kiss his mistress (and mother of his two children) through the grille of the visitors' room. Wilhelm Frick moaned: "All is finished, and there isn't much use waiting around." Goring read Bengt W. K. Berg's To Africa with the Migratory Birds. Funk (who had escaped with life) read Paul de Kruif's Men against Death...
...party, danced with Lana Turner. Burbled Lolly Parsons: "[Lana has] known Frank for a long time, but. . . says: 'I am not in love with Frank and he is not in love with me. I have never in my life broken up a home.' " Then, said Louella, Lana wept. At week's end, Frankie was reported cooling off at California's Palm Springs...
Last week in Zurich some 80 angels, mostly female, flocked to a heaven (in a "restaurant sans alcool"), to hear a German translation of Father Divine's latest "office talk." Reader Alfred Riesen, Father's governor in Switzerland, kept asking: "Aren't you glad?" Many angels wept for joy. "We thank thee, Father," they sang. "Oh, how wonderful is our Father Divine. . . . We belong to him with every atom of our body and soul...
...Kuomintang China as an able, honest, austere soldier. In the hour of victory General Fu took up his brush and addressed a plea to Communist Party chairman Mao Tse-tung: "The battle has taken the lives of at least 20,000 of your troops. We have buried them and wept over them. How sorrowful was the picture as they fled in fright, bleeding and falling by the roadside. I could not but press my heart and ask: who has killed these...