Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After this tragic inning, the Freshmen forged ahead, playing airtight ball. In the fifth, Tom Bilodeau dug his spikes deep into the dust and hit a ball towards the south-west end of Soldiers Field which bounced once on the ground and hit the side walls of the Stadium. All the old veterans of Harvard baseball claimed that it was the longest hit which had been knocked out for a decade...
...months made reference to the dysentery epidemic in Chicago last summer during the World's Fair. With the 1934 edition of the Fair to open in about a month, people the country over are interested in knowing whether health conditions in Chicago have improved. Last summer's tragic epidemic was carefully and completely ignored by the "free press" of Chicago, allowing thousands of people from all over the world to walk blindly into a dangerous situation that resulted in many fatalities and spread the disease all over the country-a situation over which the health and medical authorities...
...strange to say, the evening is not so dull. Despite the provinces of the plot, you become fascinated with the heroic sufferings which manfully struggle to remain respectfully beneath the surface. Clark Gable behaves splendidly; his happy-go-lucky disposition adequately prepares a rather tearful audience for his inevitable tragic end. The truly noble sentiments of William Powell, as Jim, never leave his actions or his future in question. Myrna Loy, struggling with her loyalty, to both men, comes to the only sensible decision. All three behave logically, although the maelstrom of tragedy holds them in its grip...
...time best sellers have been carted off to the inevitable oblivion of church fairs and charity libraries, such photographic collections as "The Roosevelt Year" will be reopened and studied over. Pictures tell a story more easily, more quickly, and more convincingly than any conceivable collection of words. The tragic picture of Herbert Hoover and President Roosevelt driving together on March 4, 1933, both subdued at the ruins of a great country, approaches the classic. The photographs of riots and lynchings; cruel, pathetic, bestial, describe the animal man with a conciseness unattainable otherwise. The titles and the selection of pictures...
...tragic Nymph whose constancy is the most poignant picture of adolescent girlhood since Maedchen in Uniform, British Cinemactress Victoria Hopper gives a tender, sensitive, haunting performance. Dodd is Brian Aherne, the British actor who played Robert Browning to Katharine Cornell's Elizabeth Barrett on the stage. Undistinguished opposite Marlene Dietrich in The Song of Songs, he exhibits in this film vast improvement...