Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rich voice which wraps itself expertly around the most ponderous periods. He has a self-confident way of handling capes, cloaks and togas. His grave, bony face seems as incapable of timidity as it is of humor. He has beetling mobile brows and eyes whose whites can gleam with tragic fury in a sepia-colored face, as they did last week in Manhattan when Crosby Gaige opened his production of Othello, with Mr. Merivale playing the stout-hearted Moor whom jealousy made...
...real loser in the battle, Bishop Parsons, mounted the pulpit of rectorless Trinity Church, spoke mystically. Said he: "He brought a fine Christian spirit to a very difficult situation in San Francisco. At my invitation he came, he saw and-in a deep sense-he conquered. . . . Out of this tragic occurrence will grow a stronger, more united church. We must be sane and not blind our eyes to the fact that we are undergoing a great change...
...Kappa Sigma, the fraternity Carmichael joined soon after he entered the University of Indian in 1920. There, in the famous Indiana Book Nook, Hoagy used to make his classmates weep as he played the original Old Rocking Chair, so sad a composition that his publishers made him tone its tragic lyrics down...
...Will Rogers and Wiley Post crashed in Alaska, Songwriter Freddie Rose (Red Hot Mamma) whipped out pieces on that disaster, passed them on to Ray Whitley, a onetime rancher who has a nasal voice, plays his own guitar accompaniments, affects a ten-gallon hat and spurs. Whitley sang the tragic songs for Decca Records. Inc., which last week reported a sale of over 5,000 copies. On one side of the disk was The Last Flight of Wiley Post. Excerpts...
High point of Chance Has A Whip, describing the delicate relationship of father, mistress and daughter, has a muffled, tragic quality that recalls the best writing of F. Scott Fitzgerald. The disapproving lady who has charge of Margot frowns upon her intimacy with Leda and her father. When Hendrick, apologizing for the trouble his daughter causes his mistress, casually remarks that she is not a very attractive child, Margot overhears him. When, to make up for that cruelty, they become more attentive and tender with her, their days are darkened by a terrible conviction that she has surprised them together...