Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...downfall of Patrick Kelly, 10-year-old orphan from New Haven, Conn., was tragic. Patrick had arrived in Washington with 21 textbooks on grammar and spelling, including a "dictionary" by Patrick Kelly, containing over 4,000 words hard to spell. Somehow he had overlooked "blackguard," and when the word-giver pronounced it, "blaggard," Patrick said, "Huh ?", and then spelled it just the way it sounded. Every one liked Patrick...
...prevent such a ridiculous and such a tragic dilemma is the task of the Liberals...
John T. Scopes, teacher of science in a Tennessee high school, has been indicted by a grand jury upon the dire charge of teaching the theory of evolution to the innocent children of Rhea County. Therein, lies a situation which might be called a tragic farce...
...poet, as a critic of poetry, as an inspirer and helper of young poets, as a biographer. Amy Lowell is a tragic loss to the country. Miss Lowell was the most versatile, and all things considered the most important American woman of letters. We shall realize only gradually what a keen and vital force in literature has been withdrawn...
This intersection of Mt. Auburn Street is quite as dangerous, and quite as much used, as that already marked one block farther down. Last evening's accident was, providentially, only a timely warning and not a tragic lesson, to the Cambridge authorities. The spot should be marked, and, until it is, students will do well to continue to approach it cautiously...