Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...such a case, an even more tragic fate awaits the conqueror, in the revenge of American transportation companies. Instead of returning from his summer trip abroad intellectually stimulated, by the best of British thought, the traveller from Cincinnati will return in September restless and dissatisfied, writhing in the consciousness that although he sedulously dodged Niagara Falls and the Yellowstone, he has nevertheless done nothing in spite of all desperate efforts, but See America First...
...sympathetically inclined court where men and women sat silent with tears streaming from their eyes, she told her story: She and the young author fell in love, became engaged. The future threw wide its arms to receive them in happiness. She was successful, he was successful. Then came a tragic day when her fiance learned that he was suffering from incurable cancer and tuberculosis. All that was in Poland...
...conquered a small Italian princedom; Manfredo, his son; the Princess Flora, who by the treaty of peace concluded between Archibaldo and the conquered Prince Avito, must break her engagement with the latter and marry Mantredo; and Flamingo, a servant. The opera ends with the tragic death of three of the principals...
...being divorced. One year and six weeks later, as he is about to be married to one of Denise's "best and cattiest friends," his first wife appears to ask him about getting rid of his successor, in order that she may marry a third time. She tells a tragic story of marrying for spite, but her second husband has done nothing which she can use against him. She explains that she has arranged with her lover to manufacture the necessary grounds that night, but M. Sorbier locks the doors to keep her safely until Husband Number Two arrives. Soon...
...hasn't been beaten. The combination of word sounds, the catchy rhythm, the absurd, jolly or pathetic pictures evoked-all have their place and appeal. The rhymes are not "criminal," I am convinced by observation as well as by my own memory. Even to the tragic death of cock robin, which has caused many a weep in many nurseries...