Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lover. By successfully fooling himself as to his, his wife's and his boss's motives, Fowler does not find it hard to take up his old job again when it is offered. Anyhow, life is too short to worry about those things. In his own little tragic triumph, Fowler, the White Collar Man, is satisfied...
...from cheap publicity, as that of the justices of the Supreme Court. Their importance would, in truth, be much greater than that of the jurists who watch over the Constitution. For they would be the defenders of the body and the soul of a great race in its tragic struggle against the blind sciences of matter...
...taste" murmured by some Briton. Paradoxically the Royal Family were themselves gently hoist by this petard last week. It was not in good taste, loyal London felt, for the engagement of H. R. H. the Duke of Gloucester to be made public last week a few hours after the tragic death of H. M. the Queen of the Belgians became known...
...single moment was enough for a tragic accident to sweep away everything -both the reality of the present and the promises of the future. Is there really some mysterious law that insures that everything that is the greatest, the purest, the most beautiful should last only for a short time...
...Mann's The Magic Mountain, in Marcel Proust's The Remembrance of Things Past. Even the cloistered Henry James, at the outbreak of the War, wrote that to consider that the peaceful, pleasant pre-War years had been secretly building up to this horrible climax, was "too tragic for any words," stopped writing, died. For European intellectuals the War meant more than the end of amiable illusions under which they had lived. The very problems that had occupied them- feminism, modern art, social progress- were made irrelevant and petty by the thunder of the conflict that raged...