Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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There is something singularly tragic in his death. He was just about to be retired for a time to use his astonishing ability in the training of our new birdmen, and General Pershing had expressed a wish that "Lufbery had his last flight." The strange irony of fate made Pershing's wish fulfil itself, not in the spirit, but in the letter...
...Tragic Themes Chosen...
...however, in "The Hand of God," by Mr. Strout, and "A Glow of Sacred Fire," by Mr. Henderson, both of them stories of rural life and both of them tragic in theme, that the excellence of the present number of the Advocate chiefly consists. Dialect presents many difficulties even for the trained hand, and in this regard Mr. Strout and Mr. Henderson have acquitted themselves remarkably well. Of the two stories the former is the more ambitious, and is, perhaps, partly on that account, the more uneven. The semi-detached prelude, in which for a moment the author intrudes...
...indeed tragic that a great race should have passed under the control of such a spirit, so utterly repugnant to human ideals of manhood, so utterly hopeless to the very future of mankind...
Death is not terrible to him who meets it bravely, wisely and in the strength of his youth. It is always terrible to the coward, the weakling and the fool. Yet, by the very inverse reason, for those who remain the death of a brave man is tragic beyond the poor power of words...