Word: tragical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...representative of the Boston University Young Progressives asserted that the inability of the late Walter A. Pollano '50 to secure entrance to medical school was due to discrimination. The BU speaker alleged that Pollano's suicide is an illustration of the sometimes tragic consequences of bias in colleges and professional schools
...certainly a good evening's reading. If he had made his American as alive and interesting as his Italians, and bothered less about making all hands talk like characters out of Ernest Hemingway, he might have written a very good novel. His ending will strike some readers as tragic, some as sugary-depending on what the reader makes of it. Altogether, pliable ending and all, it seems made to order for Gary Cooper, who has just paid $40,000 for the screen rights...
...most tragic visitor of the week was Russia's famed Composer Dmitri Shostakovich. He came to New York to attend the Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace (see below). A symbol of the harshness of the police state, he spoke like a Communist politician and acted as though he were impelled by hidden clock work rather than the mind which had composed resounding music...
...color job on life in a Manhattan police station. Laid in the detective squad room, it bristles with movement and crackles with drama, is by turns grim and grotesque, touching and horrifying. Around the edges hover wacky complainants and befuddled minor offenders; farther inside, matters are darker, bloodier, more tragic...
...Dorothy Lamour tried to sing in the Emerald Room, but carefree customers swore into the microphone ("Where the hell's my seat?"), and NBC cut Dottie off the air. Architect Frank Lloyd Wright, sniffing through the hotel, found its long green corridors "depressing," concluded that it was a "tragic . . . imitation [of] Rockefeller Center out here on the prairie . . . There should be written in front of it, in great tall letters, in electric lights...