Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...meets the widow of his slain buddy, now any man's plaything. To discharge his debt, the hero decides to rehabilitate her by marrying her and discarding his own sweetheart, but she finds a knife is a better solution of their difficulties. Bebe Daniels is impressive in this tragic role, acting without the help of a single bathing costume...
...tempestuous pantomime of a French father selling his daughter to a brutal Apache, in which Mistinguett reveals her veritable acting ability, appearing tragic even when she climbs out of a tank (the Seine...
...would not have sought diversion from his gloom at the theatre; he would therefore not have been shot; and, declares the writer, "without doubt the political history of this country subsequent to the Civil War, and perhaps of some other civilized countries, also, might have been greatly modified." The tragic story of the horseshoe nail is thus, very nearly exemplified in American history...
...that only about four persons out of every one hundred are mentally capable of obtaining a Bachelor of Arts degree, it may very, well be that the high rate of insanity among college students is due to the fact that their minds are composed of a finer, more delicately tragic material than are those of the common herd; that while they are capable of more Intricate and more subtle machinations, they are also more subject to derangement. If this is the case, the present college population may be divided roughly into two groups--those who have come safely through Divisionals...
...LIFE OF ANNE BOLEYNe secret wedding with Anne, the legalization of the situation and so through the birth of Elizabeth, Anne's decline in favor and finally to her tragic end in the Tower of London...