Word: weeping
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Read 'em, weep...
...trains with their bewildered faces, white faces, bloody faces, faces beaten out of human shape by the Niagaras of human tears that had flowed down them. The plain and tragic and innocent faces of the people, the people who 'must be left nothing but their eyes to weep with,' as Sheridan said." "An old [French] Red Cross nurse . . . put down the bowl of broth she was ladling out to the refugees and . . . took my arm. . . . 'Madame,' she said, 'you are an American?' I said: 'Yes,' and she went on: 'Then...
...Malcolm Campbell, who was wearing in court the uniform of a Royal Air Force captain, sat down and wept with his hands over his face. As Mr. Douglas Campbell began to weep too, Lady Campbell shrieked at Sir Malcolm & son: "Don't you gloat over...
...than of indignation for what caused it. This is to write in a minor key, and flub a big theme. For there must always be those who, sick for home, stand in tears amid the alien corn. But only once in a very long while has the home they weep for been turned into a living Hell...
...life, caressing his mother's new grave with the flat of his shovel; "a fat untidy young woman, loose around the waist as a sack of duck feathers"; a man who, catching his wife in adultery, "fired a shot into the ceiling, and then he began to weep, assuring Jinny he wouldn't hurt a hair of her head...