Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...deaths of books are nearly always tragic. Either they are destroyed by violence or they suffer a lingering dissolution. How the younger volumes must look up to the martyred Aeschylus, found ? wet and bedraggled ? in the pocket of the drowned Shelley! J.A.T...
...tragic page torn from the primitive history of Carolina Mountain folk...
...lord of the German war machine clothed him in the trappings of royalty, and as a result every peasant has marked his fall. To become guilty of treason is in itself a severe punishment for an officer; but to be associated with the fiasco of a brewery revolt is tragic...
...Frankly booming the President, he overstates his case. Coolidge was a great governor, he has so far acted as a dignified chief executive. But not on these counts is the country likely to hall as the "greatest man since Abraham Lincoln" one who has gained the Presidency through a tragic accident...
From the tenor of these remarks it might erroneously be inferred that The Swan possesses tragic, ravenesque propensities. The Swan is a comedy. The wisdom of it is equaled, nay surpassed, by the pungence...