Word: tragical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...LADY IN THE LAKE-Raymond Chandler-Knopf ($2). Mr. Marlowe, forthright and uninhibited California shamus (private detective), is hired to trace the missing wife of a perfume manufacturer, encounters three murders, trades punches with the police, and finally drives a tragic and cunningly concealed killer to his death. An astringent, hardbitten, expertly constructed and convincingly characterized story of the just-tough-enough school...
...sang a song called Just Because She Made Dem Goo-Goo Eyes . . . the audience kept applauding, to see how much further [my eyes] could pop out without something tragic happening . . . the encouragement . . . prompted me to enter show business...
...Responsibility for the postwar social reconstruction will fall on the victors. Many serious men have misgivings that there may be tragic compromises and a fateful repudiation of sound principles. These men are not pessimists or obstructionists, but they know the forces at play in the world about...
Rutland, Vt., pop. 17,082. Rutland's 24 doctors are merely busy; the town's greatest need is for nurses for the local hospital. But the doctor shortage is acute in Vermont's rural areas, has had some tragic results-e.g., a young boy in one rural town recently died of acute appendicitis for lack of a doctor to diagnose his case. When Dr. Harry Leslie Frost of Pittsford died, he left thousands of patients in the town and surrounding mountains without medical care. The young physician in nearby Proctor, who is trying to cope with...
...Dealer, said last week: "Even a child knows that a political revolution comparable to the Harding landslide is sweeping this nation. . . . The New Deal is through! The Democratic Party owes it to the people to draft General Marshall for President. ... He is the man of this tragic hour...