Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...among the White House eligibles. Such are the magic properties of being a governor, a senator or a speaker of the house that immediately one becomes simply an ex-so-and-so the gate of early oblivion is open and he is an exceptional man who can escape its tragic magnetism for long...
...Book Review Section of TIME for the week of Feb. 8, the following statement was quoted from the book Tragic America by Theodore Dreiser...
...young man, our maiden decides to play an age--old game with the none too platonic lawyer. She soon moves into an apartment of a magnificence which only movie "prop" mon can know. She fails to develop her side of the relationship, however, and presently appears in scenes of tragic squajor. An acute apondectomy is the event that brings her to the young doctor's hospital where he is the one who must operate. It is his first operation and with bated breath we watch him snip the offending organs with shiny instruments. As soon as the ether wears...
...farcical comedy as possible--and this is the obvious, indeed the only sensible interpretation--then the authors err in exaggerating the fiendishness and small wickedness of the mother, Mabel Dixon Church, who would stoop to any depths to attain her selfish designs. Her machinations insert all too many semi-tragic lapses into the general hilarity for the best enjoyment of the authors' genius for the ridiculous in incident and character...
...college administrators the new poverty is alarming if not tragic, but to the outsider, it will appear salutary. Money has been flowing to the colleges too freely. Much of it has been spent on building, which has added greatly to overhead costs without a proportional return in educational values. Notoriously, the universities have gone in for sumptuous building, and particularly for sumptuous accomodations for students. A fairish college dormitory today offers at least as much in the way of personal comforts and luxuries as can be found at a good club...