Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have plans ready, in case Russia is attacked by the "alliance of Capitalist powers" her propagandists talk about, to abandon Leningrad, Moscow and the whole portion of the Soviet Union which just now forms Mr. & Mrs. Davies' world and "retreat behind the Urals." That would be the most tragic expedient the Russian nation has adopted since it "saved" Moscow by burning it down around Napoleon...
...annual winter business conference, which is a small edition of the conference he holds at Babson Park, Mass. in the autumn. It was at the 1929 autumn conference that he uttered his last warning about the impending stockmarket crash. Even Mr. Babson admits that he started calling the tragic turn several years before anything happened...
...affair came to a tragic conclusion. Mrs. Newcome discovered that Leni was an actress who had turned on the gas, obviously unfitted to bring up a nervous child. Leni had to leave. Night before she was to go, the War broke out. The little doctor tried to rush Leni to a train to get her back to Germany; the bicycle on which both were riding got a flat tire; they missed the train and spent an innocent night in the fields. When they got to London they were arrested. Unfortunately for them, that same night Mrs. Newcome had taken...
...Orange Blossoms", a super-melodrama of the Gay Nineties period, is of the same school of "Ten Nights in a Bar-room" and "East Lynne", and business manager Peter Rabenold '37 guarantees that there will not be a dry eye in the house at the finish of the tragic third act, Delta Upsilon actors will take the parts of hero, villian, heroine, will do their utmost to see that virtue triumphs over evil...
Students playing minor roles are: Benedict Einarson, J.P.F., John H. Huntington '40, Michael Linenthal '37, Howard T. Roman 1G., Richmond Holder '40, and John W. Sever '40. The lead part, that of the tragic Thomas Becket, will be played by the Broadway veteran E. Irving Looke...