Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they have been resumed and may lead to the abolition of the colony. Colonel Furlong will tell of a trip, by cattle boat from Trinidad to the penal colony. On this trip, he stopped at Demarara, in British Guiana, and thence continued on to Cayenne, where he observed the tragic life of the French convicts. From there he crossed the Maroni River to Albina, the frontier of Dutch Guiana, where he visited the villages of the Carid Indians and the primitive bush negroes. With the negroes, he travelled by canoe through the heart of the tropical forests of Dutch Guiana...
...briefer, as "Whoo!" at one place, and "Abaurd" at another or "What can be allude to here?" At another place he notes "The merciless sport of the Gladiators must have had no little share in rendering the legitimate Tragedy insipid to the Romans. To obviate this the few Roman Tragic writers out-Heroded Herod, or deformed their dialogues into the epigrammatic...
...Significance. This first part of St. Reymont's epic of the soil is "a panorama of the whole round of peasant life, a brilliant picture of Polish nature ... the tragic sense of the elemental forces which dominate the efforts of the tillers of the soil." The work is truly epic in its scope, a carefully worked, heroic pattern. It is a sweeping view of Poland, ground under the imperial heel of Russia...
...played far beyond themselves and there is no disgrace nor no cause for self-reproach whenever one loses to a superior opponent. I am simply greatly worried about the contrast in the general condition and attitude of the two sets of players, one of the most striking and even tragic contrasts I have seen in the forty-five years of following football contests, and I speak as an old football player myself and a lover and well-wisher of the game. What the reason was will have to be left to the higher powers. Whether overtraining the result...
Thus, with tragic swiftness, came the ending of the first chapter of the tale...