Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dour, returned to Paris last week after a flying trip to southwestern France, they could well appreciate why the tricolor banners flying from the walls of the gayest city were tied with black bands. For in, the region whence they had come new torrents of rain had followed thg tragic deluge of last fortnight (TIME, March 17), impeding rescue work, causing new catastrophes. Whole villages had been vacated, and in the city of Bordeaux the populace watched fearfully the rise of the mighty River Garonne, swollen by downpours all along its course. In the villages and coasts watered from...
...kept anti-capitalist propaganda out of his books; but probably in that case he would not write at all. Of all U. S. authors, Author Sinclair is doubtless the foremost believer in Art for Man's Sake. Preacher first, novelist second (a bad second), he has founded many a tragic, many a sordid tale on fact, embellished it with idealistic Utopian fantasy, false to human nature. Mountain City, latest of his many novels, is more a sordid than a tragic story, its propaganda negative, implied rather than explicit...
...appearing in "Sarah and Son" at the Metropolitan Theatre, gives one of her excellent performances that stamp her as one of the talking screen's best actresses. There seems to be no limit to Miss Chatterton's versatility--she has played parts ranging from gay young wives to tragic middle-aged mothers. In "Sarah and Son" she not only acts superbly, but acquires a realistic German accent, and even goes so far as to improve in her knowledge of English as the picture progresses. Miss Chatterton has the role of a young German girl who, as a vaudeville actress, marries...
...discovers a strange slipper in the nuptial chamber. The wife coquettishly pretends that she has transgressed, that another has been buying her rice, occupying her bed. As she describes him, her raging husband perceives that the description fits one whom he has seen killed that very day. Then the tragic truth is made manifest-that the slipper belongs to the couple's own son, grown to manhood while his father was away...
...full length life of Lincoln from his obscure beginnings to his tragic end--told in the same penetrating manner as this eminent German biographer's lives of Napoleon and Bismarck...