Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...search all Aeschylus and Sophocles without finding a better example of hubris than Mr. Hoover's behavior in 1928. [His] . . . was not the wanton violence of the ancient tragic heroes but a smug arrogance. . . . His campaign promises ran to that excess which above all things offended the Greek temperament, which seemed above all things to invite the correcting interposition of Nemesis. . . . Compare him. for example, with Oedipus. Oedipus, like Hoover, thought very well of himself. We first see him when his country is suffering from a severe and unexpected depression. . . . He has appointed Kreon as a fact-finding commission. Kreon...
...social problems, she corrected the U. S. Public Employment Service's low unemployment estimate last August. She has a 15-year-old daughter. She is a Mount Holyoke graduate; always wears a brown, high-crowned, three-cornered hat. She went into social service work after witnessing Manhattan's tragic Triangle Shirtwaist fire in 1911, in which 146 girl workers were killed...
...charge he was sentenced to seven years imprisonment and on the second to two years, both in the State Penitentiary. In view of the circumstances under which the crimes were committed and because of the utter lack of extenuating facts, the punishment was fully warranted and eminently fair. The tragic consequence of the imprisonment should not be confounded with the propriety of the prosecution and punishment...
...wing in the Hofburg is barred to them. Tourists are not allowed to prowl through the rooms which belonged to Archduke Rudolf, Franz Josef's son who died mysteriously at his hunting lodge at Mayerling. Rudolf's rooms have not been preserved as a museum for tragic memories. They are occupied by 40 lively boys, the Wiener Sängerknaben (Singing Boys of Vienna), a choir which Maximilian I founded in 1498 to supply music for his chapel...
...WIFE OF ROSSETTI-Violet Hunt-Dutton ($4). The tragic story of Rossetti's "Blessed Damozel" and the Pre-Raphaelite group, by one of them...