Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After Senator Harrison, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance told the present that Senate Democrats wouldn't stomach the unamended Act in its current garbled form, Morgenthau's attempts to defend the bill have been tragic. Committee hearings disclosed first-that. Treasury experts had made absolutely no accurate estimates of the revenue available under the new taxes; second-that in practice the taxes would favor big corporations against the smaller firms; third-that the measure would increase the difficulties for firms with impaired capital and would be disastrous to the small, growing firm; fourth-that there were so many...
...Author Thompson had lingered long with any of the people in Third Act in Venice, readers might have found some ordinary, others downright unlikable. might have decided their story was a highly colored mess. Thanks to Author Thompson's restless skill, however, it emerges from dubious beginnings into tragic romance, a moral tale to melt a worldling. Francis Radnor, a "Sir" and a gentleman, but not as aristocratic as he looked, had enough money for his wants. His wants were to float about the world, now as a well-connected butterfly, now as an insect with a taste...
STRANGE GLORY-L. H. Myers-Earcourt, Brace ($2). Tragic triangle story of the deep South, by an author whose trilogy (The Root and the Flower) was called "ultra-Proustian...
...train halted for half an hour at Gainesville where a tornado had devasted the main square of the town. There he appeared on the back platform around which 2,000 silent townspeople were grouped. "My friends," declared President Roosevelt, "I hope to come back some day at a less tragic time. . . . I shall always be very proud of the spirit you have shown...
...traces of foreign accent it reads like a good translation. His stories, almost invariably peopled by simple characters, are simple, tonic, vivid. Earthy but not Scandinavian, he indulges in no metaphysical brooding. His sensibility is stoutly laced in by sense. Though he is a respecter of tragic facts he likes also the unbuttoned bellylaugh...