Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...celebrating his craft and the men who pursue it, he has not overlooked the fact that novel writing is also a craft in itself. He has mastered the new calling as thoroughly as his hero. Slim, mastered the job of wire stringing. The tale is by turns hardboiled, sentimental, tragic, humorous. But the toughness, the sentiment, the tragedy and the humor all belong to a man's world. Pride of work comes first, play second, true love a lame third...
...tragic afternoon Frau Alwine Dollfuss, safe at Riccione on the Adriatic as the house guest of Donna Rachele Mussolini, showed her babies, Rudolf and Eva, how to make sand pies. She had taken them in to supper and put them sleepily to bed before she learned that in Vienna 144 brutal young men had contrived the assassination of her husband in a manner which, said the outraged London Times, "makes the name of Nazi stink in the nostrils of the world...
...Charles C. Noble of this city went on the City Store, and the results of his experiment will be of very great value to the authorities broadening the diet which has been allowed to those on relief. I would not bother you with this detail except for the tragic urgency of the situation around here. . . . My only concern is to get it clearly before people that we lost on $12.80 a week instead of the $2.24 which was the figure quoted ... in your review. . . . (REV.) FLETCHER D. PARKER Immanuel Congregational Church Hartford, Conn. Sirs: WHAT? PRUNES BUT NO FRUIT...
August discovers that he is not so poor as he thought. With a windfall in his lap he neglects to keep the necessary firm grip on his skittish character. He falls ridiculously in love, squanders his money on a grandiose scheme, and finally meets an appropriate but not altogether tragic fate. His author's verdict on him is stern but not unkindly: "It was his mission in life to father all forms of progress and development, and he had left behind him desolation in one form or another wherever he had gone. He was ignorant and therefore innocent...
...country has more to gain from peace and the sanctity of treaties than France. So it is not surprising to find that many Frenchmen are now saying that France made a tragic mistake in supporting Japan (in a backhand manner) in the Manchurian affair. And they note, with bitterness, that it was the Do Wendel press that wanted to let Japan have her imperial...