Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mail contracts wire. It is only too bad that he did not realize that he was going too far in sending this telegram to President Roosevelt--who saw through it easily enough--and only too sad that his publicity should have been one of the prime causes of the tragic loss of his boy, and by sensationalizing the whole affair, make it even more difficult for him and Mrs. Lindbergh to bear. Edward C. Tenney...
...inevitable outbreak of hostilities between the Dolifuss brand of Fascism and the Socialists in Austria has come with unusual violence. The tragic side in the situation is the destruction of the Socialist machine in the city of Vienna by the Heimwehr troops, for it signifies more than merely the end of another Socialist party; it is the finish of one of the most ambitious and successful attempts to found a society which was in every sense of the word progressive, and which represented the furthest advance yet made in improving the general condition of a whole people. In a city...
...backhouse terms is the late D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover. But Ulysses is far from being "just another dirty book." Judge Woolsey decided that its purpler passages are "emetic," rather than "aphrodisiac"; that the net effect of its 768 big pages is "a somewhat tragic and very powerful commentary on the inner lives of men and women." But even granting Ulysses a bill of moral health an intelligent adult may well smite his brow...
...observer at Peiping Base Hospital: "The North China soldier rates a much higher military mark than his reverses of the past few months might indicate. . . . Only those wounded by aerial bombing gave evidence of broken spirit. . . . Air raids at Hsi Feng Kou and again at Chi Hsien gave tragic proof of the nonsanctity of hospitals against aerial bombing. . . . "The wounded we treated were young, and in most instances finely developed men. They were orderly and well be haved. All were free of active venereal disease. Most were admitted in a state of exhaustion with badly soiled clothing and dirty bodies...
...Gallant Lady, a courteous description of a self-consciously noble character, catches up themes familiar to her recent pictures. Instead of the lovelorn plastic surgeon in The Right to Romance, blonde Actress Harding this time is an arty and lovelorn lady named Sally Wyndham who after a tragic love affair gives up her baby, goes to Italy as an interior decorator's agent to forget. There she packs up the Renaissance chapel of the Carnini family for a U. S. client, turns homeward, followed by Count Mario Carnini (Tullio Carminati). In a Paris hotel she accidentally stumbles...