Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...story of Made for Each Other is not really a story at all. It is merely the record of experiences-some funny, some tragic, but all appallingly convincing-shared by the Masons in the first two or three years of their life together. The record includes the consequences of a cold the baby catches because he has to sleep in the dining room; the disaster caused when a maid-of-all-work leaves in the midst of a dinner party; the results of John Mason's request for a raise; difficulties between Jane and her mother...
...Italian cardinal is rather improbable," he said. "It would be an open challenge to Mussolini, and in view of the present political situation in Europe it might lead to serious complications," Professor La Piana believes that in case of war, a non-Italian Pope would be in a tragic situation...
...What! Oh, I'm just Vag." O, treachery! Fly, Vag, fly, fly, fly. Avaunt ye. Tis he--cruel murderer of innocent men and children. But was this perfectly normal, mild young man the bloody tyrant who had dinned Shakespeare's powerful, tragic lines into the ears of the sceptical and untutored younger generation for the last three hours? who had boomed it and shouted it over their wisecracks and embarrassed titterings until he finally wooed their interest by pure lung power? Once wooed, Shakespeare's own magic had a chance to function, and had won the evening. But how could...
...this limitation; Edward Arnold as the munition manufacturer is a bestial villain--which was certainly not Sherwood's intention in writing the play. Even the essential structure of the plot itself has been changed to suit movie audiences;--the pathetic attempt to tack a happy ending on a basically tragic plot detracts greatly from the dramatic force of the play...
Figueras' existence as the fourth capital of the Spanish Republic was brief, tragic and historic. Almost from the time the ministries were established in the little town (normal pop. 14,000) Rebel bombers began smashing it. In one day's raids 300 were reported killed, 800 wounded. At its fall the city was entirely deserted...