Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...position of at least four of the agricultural exporting countries of Europe is absolutely tragic!" said Rumanian Minister of Commerce Virgil Madgearu. He pictured Rumanian farmers as "crushed" by the stupendous volumes of foodstuffs offered in World markets by North and South America plus Russia. Referring to Russian "dumping" (see p. 17), M. Madgearu seemed to blame this partially on the U. S. "The great Capitalist absentee from League circles," said he with biting asperity, "has shipped 35,000 tractors to the great Communist absentee...
...custody of astute Gabriel Wells, who vies for newspaper space with Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach as premier U. S. rare-book seller. One was a self-portrait, one was of Mrs. Sarah E. Shelton, traditionally Poe's inspiration for "Annabel Lee." The third was of his tragic child-wife, Virginia Clemm, who died in a garret of misery and malnutrition, with a purring cat on her stomach to keep her warm. All three were signed, but Poe who wrote with the careful legible hand of a pre-typewriter newspaper man, had one of the easiest signatures to forge...
Clemm Poe. It is said that the only other picture that is accessible was made after her death. But here we have her as her husband saw her-a most romantic and tragic lady, the poet's best love...
...Glory of the Nightingales is written in a quiet blank verse. As befits the reminiscent, sometimes conversational manner, the language is keyed low, but it has a subtle tension which gradually accumulates its tragic effect. There are few memorable, marmoreal phrases, none that would sound out of place in a sober and serious colloquy. Occasionally this quiet phrasing has a bite in it which louder words somehow lack. Nightingale is telling Malory how he ruined him by not giving him warning to sell stock he knew was going to crash...
Poet Robinson is sometimes accused of being morbidly interested in tragic subjects, but his defenders reply that his subjects are typical of universal themes. He puts his own defense into the mouth of Nightingale (and this is as near as Nightingale ever comes to an apology): ". . . I doubt if any of this Is new, for I dare say it has all happened In Samarcand or Celebes before...