Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Zurich, Switzerland, March 1--Apparently inspired by the tragic death of the Du Bois sisters, Charles Grieder and his fiancee, Antoinette Joery, today leaped to death from an airplane near Basle...
Missing Key. In the general scramble to second the jury's findings, few heads remained cool enough to reflect that this great murder mystery still remained pretty much of a mystery. "Unless future events supply the gaps in the tragic story," pointed out the Baltimore Sun, "there will remain a feeling that the real key to the mystery is missing. In other words, what preceded the entrance of Hauptmann into the Lindbergh house? By what conspiracy of chance or confederacy was he able to accomplish his purpose so easily? When Hauptmann has paid the extreme penalty for this crime...
...that that threatens to send the Feslermen down to dark defeat. For a team drilled ever since the start of the season as practically a five-man squad, due to the exigencies of material, such an accident to one of the regulars is little less than tragic, and no adequate solution has yet been found. Both By Moser and Jack Mason, regulars on last year's Freshman quintet, have been working out at the right forward position, trying to get in the swing, but the punch of the former combination is still lacking...
Taking as its theme the tragic story of the "Demi-Soldes." or half-pensioned soldiers of Napoleon, in the years after the Bourbon Restoration, the French Film, "L'Agenie des Aigles" is a credible historical document. These soldiers who in a changed France have nothing left but their ardent admiration of L'Empereur try to bring about a return of the grand age by attempting to seat L'Aiglon, the young son of Napoleon, on the throne of his father. Although they fail in the attempt, their remarkable loyalty and indomitable courage is faithfully reproduced in this picture. Perhaps...
...picture of the frenzied, gullible, and fanatically intolerant state of mind in which the nation went to war. The testimony of "Taps" shows once more that the only time for an individual to make a rational decision about war-resistance is in the months of peace. It is a tragic human failing which makes men shrink from decision until they are no longer masters of their own powers of judgment...