Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that I'd be within two blocks of the scene at the very time Angelo* Pallante attempted to kill Palmiro Togliatti, the most dangerous Communist in Italy!" Louella's story: she and Actress Merle Oberon were on a shopping expedition when the attempted assassination took place. The tragic result: "Neither of us was able to finish the buying of gifts we hoped to take home...
When General "Jumping Joe" Swing, First Corps commander, came in from Corps Headquarters in Kyoto, 11 hours after Fukui's tragic earthquake (TIME, July 12) he asked TIME Correspondent Carl Mydans "How did you know there was going to be a quake here...
...Evangeline's words, "encouraged ... to look upon the Army as a dynasty which was to descend to his children; and more and more the Army all around the world sensed this, with all its tragic dangers." In 1927 she handed Bramwell a confidential memo urging that the Army's constitution be changed to allow the election of generals, instead of having them appointed by their predecessors. When Bramwell rejected this suggestion, she circulated the documents among the Army's Commissioners and Territorial Commanders. By 1928, 72-year-old General Bramwell Booth was so broken in health that...
...talking in dining rooms and nurseries which the author hardly ever describes, but which Critic Edward Sack-ville-West has neatly termed "embowered, rook-enchanted concentration camps." The persevering reader will find that the sum total of all this artifice, melodrama and incredible behavior is a warm, witty, profoundly tragic portrait of married and family life...
...Resistentialist ideal is to free man from his tragic destiny of Thing-hauntedness by refusing to enter into relation with Things. Things always win, and man can be free from them only by not doing anything...