Word: tragical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just how would he go about educating for failure? Demos would draw on history, tragic literature and philosophy...
...series was called off for almost twenty years after a tragic incident marred the 1910 encounter. The Army coach refused to remove his left tackle, Eugene Byrne, from the game, despite that fact he was so obviously exhausted that Harvard's Percy Haughton sent a request to the opposing bench asking that he be taken out. "We'll leave him in there until he drops," was the replay. On the very next play, according to the story, Byrne was removed from the field, dead...
...last week a gaunt and hungry tomeat approached Agassiz Hall in Radcliffe Yard. The girls looked upon this tragic figure of a cat, and took pity. They took it in and fed it scraps from a tuna fish sandwich...
Second on the list of attractions is "Bad Sister," an English offering that ranks far below the usual foreign product. Margaret Lockwood and Joan Greenwood, two very nice-looking dames, take the audience to the Riveria and Finland on a pair of tragic love affairs. The high point comes in Finland where Miss Lockwood is serenaded by a high-frequencied soprano with a face like a bilious brook trout...
...tragic neglect of our ancient friend and ally, China...