Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After leading the whirlwind Arab camelry to victory over the Turks in the World War, the late Lieut. Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence refused decorations and money, reputedly as a protest against Britain's weaseling on territorial promises made to buy the Arabs for the Allies. This tragic-hero role lost some of its poignancy last week with the publication of a chapter previously omitted, on the advice of George Bernard Shaw, from Lawrence's confessional, Seven Pillars of Wisdom. This chapter reveals that the Colonel knew all along that the Arabs would be double-crossed...
...Middles rowing an entirely different race, a week start and finish, but a strong middle race . . . Ptomaine poisoning ravaged the Penn crew this week leaving them a meagre 12 hours of practice. They still rowed a strong finish race and almost nabbed Navy . . . The Penn Freshman had a tragic finish: ahead of the Plebes, a crab threw them out of joint near the finish
Beethoven: Symphony No. I and Brahms: Tragic Overture (B. B. C. Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini conducting; Victor: 10 sides...
...pointed as moral for expatriates. Living in Europe most of the time since 1925, he has published eight books; all except one dealt with Americans. But the only success among them was the one with foreign characters: The Life and Death of a Spanish Town, which told the tragic story of Santa Eulalia, where Elliot Paul lived from 1931 until his last-minute departure aboard a German cruiser...
Most thrilling record: Kenneth Landfrey, a trumpeter for the Light Brigade, sounding again in 1890 the tragic charge at Balaclava...