Word: tragical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Scott of the Air Forces saw sudden trouble on the instrument board dials of his swift Bell Aircobra. With his Allison engine revving at critically high speed (ground witnesses his suspected his propeller control had gone of whack), he headed for home, was too late by a tragic few seconds...
...gentleman. Recently secluded somewhere in Vichyfrance, he has not let Vichyfascism shut him up. He had the gizzard to contribute to the September American Mercury a nostalgic article extolling the French democratic tradition. Wrote he: "Among the memories which fill my journal, the most precious to me in these tragic days we are living through are the ones which bring back the beginnings of my cordial relations with two nations for which my admiration is today more fervent than ever-Great Britain and the United States. . . . I wanted to show that I was bound and always will be bound...
...American Museum of Natural History in his new book Aztecs of Mexico (Doubleday Doran; $4). Assembling the wealth of new historical evidence dug up since William Hickling Prescott finished his great Conquest of Mexico in 1843, it will muffle the sighs which four generations have sighed over "the tragic destruction of a great culture by lustful Spanish barbarians...
This book makes the U.S. Civil War real, tragic, fantastic and much more read able than World War II. Author Leech's (Mrs. Ralph Pulitzer) literary sector is the home front at the point where all its conflicts were most fiercely focused -Washington, D.C. Her purpose: to show the city and the nation that converged...
Sholokhov invests his Cossacks with much of that tragic glamor U.S. Northerners feel in the "lost cause" of the Confederacy. This winner's ease of sympathy has a double-edged pathos now that the Muscovite winners stand to lose so much. As a political novel, The Don Flows Home to the Sea has almost ceased to have meaning. Though they are scarcely 20 years gone, its violent events, against the vast implacabilities which devour that same earth now, have the minute, archaic beauty of actions seen through a reversed telescope: Cossack fighting was an affair of horses, hard riding...