Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Enrolled as a freshman at Lincoln Memorial University, Harrogate, Tenn., was Ann Rutledge, 18, daughter of Donald Rutledge of Ottumwa, Iowa, a nephew of the Ann Rutledge who was Abraham Lincoln's tragic, youthful love. She was working in a WPA theatre project in Chicago when she was introduced to the president of Lincoln Memorial, was persuaded to enter...
...seem a strange activity to couple with the direction of a movement for national spiritual uplift. But the Manchurian conflict had taught China the truth of the tragic axiom that 'God helps those who help themselves...
...Nordicas, Richters. Corno di Bassetto, busy with political agitating, missed a new Dvorak symphony and a concert by Harold Bauer (who played the violin for the first ten years of his career before becoming a pianist). Shaw on Patti: There has not yet been witnessed a dramatic situation so tragic that Madame Patti would not get up in the middle of it to bow and smile if somebody accidentally sprung his opera hat. She is simply a marvelous Christy Minstrel, and when you have heard her sing Within a Mile in the Albert Hall, so perfectly that not a syllable...
...were armed with rusty, ancient Mausers and threadbare, emptied cartridge-slings. They were soaking wet, shivering, utterly exhausted, huddled together for warmth in bedraggled groups. . . . But they were singing, not loudly, their voices coming from far away, from the depths of their exhaustion; the song (low, monotonous, tragic) positively wrung from their entrails, the very sound and expression of an unquenchable and undefeatable vitality. They were mostly young, very young, the month's growth of hair on their faces soft and curling...
...With tragic deaths on nearby campuses bringing the subject into the news last year, local investigation revealed a tremendous number of lethal weapons in dormitory possession of Harvard students...