Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fighting his bouncing old Philistine of a father, candy tycoon of Springfield, Ohio; tired of trying unsuccessfully to get any more money out of him. He had been through the War, had been married and divorced. Last night he had spent his last spare sou. Not for any tragic reason but because there seemed to be nothing else to do he planned to step out of his hired boat into the water of the little Riviera harbor...
Poet Laureate John Dryden wrote pat parts for her saucy tongue; she even essayed tragic roles, much to the disgust of Gossip Samuel Pepys. Pepys was mighty proud of going behind the scenes once and meeting Actress Nell. Said he: "I kissed her, and so did my wife: and a mighty pretty soul she is." When she was 17 Lord Buckhurst gave her her first vacation from the stage; soon after, the Merry Monarch himself looked her way. Nell's cockney wit was never abashed by grand company. She made her royal lover laugh by saying that "he might...
...Chicago. With the Coolidge party starting from China and the Roosevelt group from the Tibetan border, the original plan was to meet on the Mekong River, but the swift rapids in the Mckong and a lack of time prevented this meeting until the end of the expedition. One tragic incident marred the otherwise complete success of the trip. This was the death of R. W. Hendee from malaria when he was on his way from the Coolidge party to join Roosevelt...
Without these added powers, all limited to actual reduction of expenditure the president elect will be in no fair position to redeem his campaign pledges to the country. This bill proposes a centralization of action and of responsibility, a step eminently valid, and it is certainly a tragic irony which decrees that Mr. McNary, its most avowed foreman in the Senate, should have met his baptism of fame beneath the aegis of the Farm Relief Bill of painful memory...
...profundity is this philosophy: let us be merry today for yesterday (1914-18) we died. To prove his point he wrote two strongly sentimental dramas. The first, Post Mortem (unproduced), exposes the social dissolution observed by a young ghost who returns from Flanders. The second, Cavalcade, is a tragic cyclorama which begins with the Boer War and ends in 1930 with the hope that "this country of ours may find dignity, greatness, and peace again." Here was something more than the world dared to expect from a "song & dance man." a range and flexibility of talent that was grounded...