Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...street accident the curious, excited crowd impedes the recovery of the injured, so in the sinking of the S-1 there was much shouting and treading on toes that made painful a tragic circumstance, and that brings, now that panic struck hope has turned to quiet sorrow, a flood of regret and retraction. In an interview in this paper. Commander R. C. Grady deplores this troublesome intervention on the part of laymen entirely ignorant of the facts, and declares that the Navy has done everything possible to safeguard the lives of in submarines. Yesterday, even as President Coolidge insisted that...
...Book. "Before I was born my mother was in great agony of spirit and in a tragic situation. She could take no food except iced oysters and iced champagne. ... I was born under the star of Aphrodite...
...this one she meets a standardized, youthful, French aristocrat on the point of marrying a girl he does not love because he has been engaged to her practically since birth. Clara Bow, in the part of his true inamorata, finds ingenious and not unentertaining devices which permit this tragic possibility to be avoided. Through these devices the "It" motif, which sounded loudly through It and Hula, runs like the sound of ten trombones and a fiddle...
...witchcraft, in "humanity." Now they believe in nationalism. That there should be communal and religious ties and obligations is justiflable and praiseworthy, but that an arbitrary, even absurd notion should be elevated into a fanaticism which may allow certain unscrupulous men to plunge the world into anarchy is tragic...
...character, so presented, has the truth of fiction, the illusion of reality. The book reaches for the atmosphere of imperial Rome and achieves it, presenting as well the story of a man, great by accident, and, by the necessity of humanity, both absurd and tragic...