Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next day Skobline's wife, Nadine Plevitskaia, a dark singer with tragic features, was questioned at police headquarters. Police found her answers to questions "sometimes reticent, contradictory or inexact." She said she wanted protection, asked to be put up for the night. Finally she was arrested on suspicion of complicity...
Philadelphia Friends called the publicity "tragic" and, in view of the fact that the Record's Publisher Julius David Stern is a Jew, ''the worst crime in newspaper history." Their concern was justified when, on the day the Quaker delegation reached Berlin, Dr. Goebbels' organ Der Angriff sniggered: "We hope they will make themselves known. . . . Then we will know, you see, when to begin to quake-quake duly before the Quakers...
...Baudelaire's imagination, sensuality had tragic grandeur. He lived with a fat mulatto and wrote the most magnificent French verse since Racine. He was also the only art critic of his day who recognized the greatness of Daumier. He died, broken by drink and opium, in 1867. Though not precisely a Bible to modern man, the Flowers of Evil has been abundantly profaned by illustrators who interpreted it as high-class pornography...
...been deserted by his wife. Literally searching for God to find an answer to his sufferings, he stumbles on a group of vaudevillians in a speakeasy. One of them has the sinister talent of worming the truth out of people, and drags from a dwarf and a ventriloquist their tragic, bleeding stories. Appalled by the knowledge of so much other suffering in the world, Clancy momentarily damns the world as evil; then affirms that man, through the exercise of his will, can make the world good...
...reader unaware of the fundamentally simple weave of these people may feel that they are too often pathological cases, warped by a tough existence into a state of mind where they commit crazy, tragic actions--Mary Orr, for example, who just "upped" and deserted her husband after twenty years, or the Island wife who jumped into the sea one fine day. It is hard for us to regard these abrupt acts, that come with so little outward warning, as normal. We cannot understand the simplicity of a Thomas King who blows the head off his powerful body after carefully feeding...