Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even as McCracken was dying, the parents of the killer, publishers of the weekly Plaindealer & Modoc County Times, issued their newspaper with this lead story: "As we go to press the tragic news is brought to us that our son Harry French has shot Claude L. McCracken, editor of the Modoc Mail. McCracken is seriously hurt. We ask you, our readers, to pray for us all in this hour of tragedy. Please pray for us that the injured man recovers. We apologize for the uncompleted parts in our paper. Our strength and heart in our work is gone tonight...
...gave me an orange and told me a few mildly dirty stories, and I loved her from then onwards." It was at about this time that one of Noel's fellows imparted to him the facts of life. True to his trade as always, he made a tragic entry into his mother's room, cried: "Mother, I have lost my innocence!" The audience laughed...
Virtue, sentimentality and black whiskers will come to Winthrop in approved House drama style on April 22 and 23, when members of the House will stage "East Lynne." The piteous Lady Isabel, who compromises herself and comes to a tragic end, is played by Arthur R. Borden, Jr. '39, while the lecherous villain, Sir Francis Levison, is A. James Lehman...
...Little saw that before he set out to propagandize laymen on cancer control, more doctors would have to be persuaded that an informed layman was a good patient. He also had to encourage more doctors to learn more about a disease whose treatment was plagued with tragic and humiliating failures. Three years ago, after many an appearance on the rostrum of many a medical and biological society, Dr. Little felt he had the doctors back of him. Logically, his next attack was on that group of cancer sufferers which is most numerous and amenable to treatment...
...leading part, that of the tragic Thomas a Becket, will be played by E. Irving Locke, of Boston, veteran Broadway player. New additions to the cast are Richmond Holder '40; David Langworthy '40; Robert W. Woodward '40; and Miss Marjorie Sanford, of Boston. The director of the current T. S. Eliot drama is William B. Berssenbrugge '37, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin...