Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Significance. Pedant, poet, playwright and teller of tales, each after his manner has dealt more or less faithfully with the tragic story of the pitiful Queen of Scots. Mr. Hume applies the scientific method; avoids the Charybdis of sentimentality and the Scylla of puritanism; achieves clarity and justice. The men who loved her were beyond counting, she had many suitors?but once only, as it seems, Mary had a love affair of her own. The others were merely scarlet threads woven into the texture of her ambition to succeed Elizabeth as England's queen and to restore the Catholic church...
...enormous masses of positive electrons, which swept into the far-flying signal waves with disruptive effect.* There was an earthquake in the Pacific one night which caused further blurring of communication; and two nights running, ships in distress on the storm-tossed Atlantic silenced all stations with their stark, tragic S.O.S.† The European program was flashed from stations in England, France, Germany, Austria and Spain. In Berlin, portly opera singers were obliged to loiter over their beer all night or scramble out of bed long before dawn to warble into the microphone songs that were to be heard...
Benito Dixit. "The adjective 'sovereign' as applied to 'the people' is a tragic burlesque! . . . Governments exclusively based on the consent of the governed have never existed, do not exist, and will probably never exist. . . . Can you imagine a war proclaimed by referendum? . . . I do not tell you, O people, that you are as gods. As I love you truly, so I should say to you that you are dirty, you must arise and cleanse yourselves; you are ignorant, therefore set yourselves to gain instruction. . . . Horny hands are not enough to prove a man capable of guiding a state. . . . We must...
...when he first comes into the realization that his early dreams of fame which are the common property of all youngsters, are not materializing. Usually he recovers after the first blow and reconciles himself to making the most of his talents. If he doesn't, the result often becomes tragic rather than humorous...
...first time since 1914 Europe faces the future turns its back upon the tragic accumulation of war antagonisms and ambitions. Once again, European unity as a family of nations is promised eastward to the frontiers of Bolshevik Russia. The disasterous fracture across Central Europe, breaking the Old World in two embattled camps of victor and vanquished, is ended...