Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most respected of our native rites, more solemnly carried out even than the more recently inaugurated Armistice Day observances. The contagious enthusiasm of masses of people wholeheartedly experiencing the same emotion is impressive and heartening. As long as such collective recognition of past deeds and their tragic side is periodically engaged in, there will be a strong tendency toward national stability and a level-headed outlook...
Unreconstructed Southerners regard the Civil War as a series of tragic blunders, can still wonder what the outcome might have been if Bragg had not been so dilatory after Chickamauga, if Longstreet had not been so slow at Gettysburg, if Lee's genius had not been hamstrung by Jefferson Davis' defensive policy. Even some Northerners, looking around at what the U. S. has become and back at what the South was, can see that the Civil War might have been a tragic mistake, can wonder whether reducing the South to the lowest common denominator of the Union...
...hint at from the references cast his way. He is struggling with the hardships of awkardness and self-consciousness so trying to a boy in the early teens. The author describes his feelings and his trials with the utmost tenderness and sympathy, yet giving us a faithful picture. The tragic scenes which follow on the heels of the opening chapter come to us at first through the mind of Robert and later through that of his father...
...Star is Born," now showing at Loew's State and Orpheum is a picture that, besides being filmed in color, is as nice a combination of the tragic and the comic as Hollywood has yet produced. Judging from the reaction of yesterday's audience. Producer Seiznick really has something this time, for the men chuckled heartily, the women wept gently, and everyone enjoyed the show...
Maric's pathetic love affair with the dying Bastien-Lepage, another poor and struggling artist, is described with all the warmth and tenderness the author possesses. These last tragic scenes, when the ready realizes Bashkirtseff herself is doomed, stand out in striking contrast to the earlier, more lively moments of her childhood. Not only does the author capture the mood of her subject, but the very spirit of the times--the seventies in the continental capitals, Rome, Paris, Naples, and the rest. From life on the picturesque Riviera of the last Nineteenth Centry with its lazy and peaceful atmosphere...