Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thing, it seems, that many university officials imagine is a demand by the college Negro for social opportunities. This is a tragic delusion, for nothing is further from the intelligent Negro's mind. He has long ago become socially self-sufficient-and especially in a city as large as Boston, social satisfaction is quite obtainable. What he does expect includes the practical advantages that his university can offer: the opportunity to learn by conversation, and, if necessary, by invitation. These are pitifully denied him at Harvard. Of the four Negro members of the Class of 1932, all of whom...
More than a little reminiscent of the using of that grand old hostelry, the Waldorf-Astoria, a flock of giddy girls and boys are celebrating their last evening in Hotel Continental. It's tragic to see old couples come back to spend the last night in the rooms where they honeymooned, but Miss Shannon dispels such somber thoughts. Enticing a man of mystery into the room by a feint of suicide, Peggy falls dearly in love with the young embezzler, who has just returned from five years in the big house. Even though her duty to the gang...
...Vicki Baum, who fortnight ago stated she would henceforth reside in the U. S. instead of Berlin, saw Grand Hotel, she had reason to be pleased with the adaptation of her play. Said she: "My admiration for Greta Garbo is unbounded. ... I see before me even now her tired, tragic face in the opening scenes and her extraordinary vivacity of expression and action as the happy Grusinskaya." It is a quick, sharp melodrama far superior to imitations of it already produced (Transatlantic, Union Depot, Hotel Continental). Edmund Goulding's direction is brilliant but the picture's greatest virtue...
...visions, the desires that fool man out of his limits lead Poet Jeffers' tragic heroes & heroines into dark and terrifying ways. "Tamar," "The Tower Beyond Tragedy," ''The Women at Point Sur" all tell incestuous tales. "Roan Stallion" tells of a woman's love for a horse. Though critics, with few exceptions, have extolled the splendor and intensity of Poet Jeffers' works, some women think that he spoils his poems with such outrageous themes. Even his wife complained. "Robin," said she after he had finished "Roan Stallion," "when will you quit forbidden themes?" Robin answered with an enigmatic smile...
...story of our foreign loans is a sordid tale, grotesque and tragic. ... In the investigation there were disclosed certain ugly facts which enabled us to understand and resent what has been done to the investing American public ... a dazed people whose pockets have been picked. . . . The utterly unrestrained duping of investors, the smug complacency of the great financial prestidigitators are all shown. . . . The sale of foreign securities was not only unrestrained by our Government but the peculiar system adopted by the State Department enabled international bankers to foster sales and convey the impression that their securities were satisfactory...