Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...despite an admirably understanding performance, Mr. Barrymore is subordinated to Edward Arnold in the role of Anthony P. Kirby. Blending the comic and the tragic, MR. Arnold's portrayal of the financier whose success has brought loneliness with it is one of the finest pieces of acting to come to the screen this year. Jean Arthur, James Stewart and particularly Spring Byington deserve high credit as well...
...those members of the Bourgeoisie who intend to dust off their full-dress clothes should leave them in dark clothes or, better still, sell them to those Jews who tragic in second-hand clothes," the Pepolo Di Trieste said...
Correspondents crossing the narrow strip separating the Czech Army lines from the German Army's advance lines in Sudetenland last week reported the most tragic aftermath of the Sudeten Settlement. Huddled in ditches or scrabbling in the fields for stray potatoes missed by the harvesters in this no-man's-land were hundreds of desperate Jews...
...eyesight of basically healthy California appeared already to be discovering that the overfull moon which hung above the State was made of green cheese. Dopesters give the "Ham & Eggs" one chance in three of winning. Pathetic appeared the lot of those who have spent their pennies supporting it, but tragic will be the political fate of Sheridan Downey and his managers if, having won nomination through "Ham & Eggs," they are swamped by reaction against...
...third novel by Dorothy Van Doren, Those First Affections is the story of the father's decline & fall in Sarah's eyes- from the time when there had been "nobody as big, or as funny, or sometimes as frightening," to the tragic day when he cried in her presence. Sarah had not known that men knew how to cry. She learned other things faster-economics by going hungry, the ways of boys from confidences of schoolmates. Before her father's death she learned her biggest lesson: "When you were a little child you thought your parents could...