Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Roll River begins in the 1880's, rolls all the way down to the 1920's. Its scene is "Midian," a western Pennsylvania town (Author Boyd's native place was near Harrisburg, Pa.). First part tells the tragic love story of Clara Rand, only daughter of Midian's coal tycoon. Clara was the greatest catch in town but she was also a character in her own right. When Fitz-Greene Rankin, a suave young newcomer from Philadelphia, began to court her, fascinated Clara put up little or no resistance; neither did her parents after they...
...must have been disappointed. Most positive was Correspondent Joseph Cookman of the liberal New York Post: "To most of his audience, the failure to arrive at any definite results such as they had been led to expect, was puzzling. To the insiders it was little short of tragic. . . . Father Coughlin had called an organization meeting and had no program for anything except a rally...
...Tarka goes, leaving the big house empty for Cooper and Sten to utilize in falling in love. When Cooper's wife returns the harm is already done. There is a surprising tragic end which we wont spoil...
...partisan points of view-its co-authors are Alexander Kerensky and Paul Bulygin, a onetime captain of the Imperial Life Guards-even Bolsheviks would probably admit that the main facts of the story are true.* Less because some of the details are gruesome than because the end is inevitably tragic, most readers will want to hear this retelling of old news that is now history...
...time. He became dictator of Mexico, was proclaimed Emperor Agustin I only one year after the last Spanish viceroy was driven out. Emperor Agustin reigned for only one winter, left for Europe, returned and was executed. So, 43 years later, was Mexico's Third Emperor, fluffy-whiskered Maximilian. Tragic Maximilian chose Morelia as the site for a summer palace. The building still exists as a museum administered by the state university, San Nicolas de Hidalgo de Michoacan. Last week Maximilian's old palace provided Mexican schoolboys with one more reason for being conscious of Morelia. In that...