Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...further ahead than tomorrow (I believe nobody who cannot see at least fifty years ahead has a right to govern a nation) are worried. . . . The whole of urban Italy shows a birth deficit. Not only is there not equilibrium, but deaths exceed the births. We have reached a tragic phase of the phenomenon. The cradles of our cities are empty and the cemeteries growing...
MACHINAL-Zita Johann, a new and excellent actress, in a baldly tragic play about a murderess (TIME, Sept...
...next year, unlike the freshmen at Harvard, the freshmen at the University of Wisconsin, or most other freshmen in the U. S., something might happen to these freshmen that would change their minds. Reading about the bright city on whose finest temple an owl perched, like a symbol of tragic and sagacious hunger, they might, in some strange way, grow to know something more about Milwaukee or St. Paul. They would perhaps laugh at Aristophanes instead of shouting his silliest lines to a football team; Sophocles, Euripides and Aeschylus might teach them something about how men may be forlorn...
...chronicle is complete−a tragic tale of fatality done into poetic prose. Dramatic in sweep, The Babyons is a distinguished piece of writing that glows with colorful finesse of concrete detail. Clemence Dane (Will Shakespeare, and A Bill of Divorcement) lives deep in Devonshire, where she feeds her guests cold ham for breakfast...
...audience always excited and interested. It slips sometimes into banality. Some scenes are ineffective. But Machinal does something far more important than provide entertainment. Sometimes it stretches taut the bare thread of its narrative, and like An American Tragedy it has moments which are so true that they are tragic. In these moments the disorderly processional of those who are born in pain to death in sorrow comes abruptly to have a frightening and enormous significance...