Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Juno and the Paycock, by Sean O'Casey. A rich and rowdy tragic poem about an ironically conceived old wastrel who watches his family sink into want and despair with the ineffectual moan: "The world is in a state of chassis...
...predicament of its most pathetic member, Grace Sutton. She (Loretta Young) is a young matron who anticipates, in addition to the pangs of a delivery, 20 years in prison because she is a murderess. This causes the physicians who are attending her confinement to make a decision which is tragic for Grace Sutton's young husband (Eric Linden). When her labor pains have lasted for 30 hours, they decide on a Caesarian operation, save the child and let the mother...
...What a tragic thing," he mourned. "that leadership of the Empire has passed from Great Britain to Canada...
...puts a green napkin over his head, sits down on a stone to make friends with the lizards. The efforts of William Colombe's children to control the follies of an old manwhom they have been accustomed to revere and over whom they have no authority is more tragic than the old man's maundering decline. Louis, able, conscientious, energetic, tries hard to save the Colombe fortune. Jourdaine, married to a petulant diplomat, stays at Saint Saturnin, harried by the spectacle of her father's second childhood. Nicholas, thoughtful and lonely, tries hard to keep up appearances...
...been unfaithful to Prince Hachi's trust. He determines to befriend the girls by marrying Kozeri off to his noble friend Niou. The gallant Niou succeeds in winning her, takes her off to court. But soon, for court reasons, he has to reduce her to concubinage. With her tragic disappointment the book ends. Though Niou "vowed to cherish her in this life and all lives to come . . . she could not help reflecting that, short as this present life is, he had already found time in it to break her heart once, and it was asking a good deal to expect...