Word: tragically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...recall for a moment Antoine Emmanuel Ernest Monis, who 16 years ago was Premier of France? Many who sat in the Chamber last week must have known him in his prime. They must recall how it became necessary for him to resign the Premiership after a tragic accident. . . . Premier Monis had gone out with his War Minister, Henry Maurice Berteaux, to Issy-les-Moulineaux, there to watch the start of a Paris-Madrid air race. That was in 1911, only eight years after the first motor-propelled airplane flew. As the Premier and the War Minister stood watching, a monoplane...
...sound mind, and had acted without malice. He was sentenced to nine years of solitary confinement. Meanwhile questions loomed: "Could Sergei Slovochotov have chosen between killing his fiancee and kissing her? Could Zina Jukova have chosen between experimenting with her sex appeal and keeping still? Were they free-willed tragic fools, or was their fate predestined and so neither comedy nor tragedy...
...evening a Brahms program will be given by the Boston Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Mr. Koussevitsky in Symphony Hall. The first number will be the so-called, Tragic Overture, which will be followed by Concerto No. 2, in B flat major for pianoforte and orchestra will present the second Symphony in D major...
...eternal enigma. With a genius essentially lyrical and subjective, he was unable to raise himself above the tragedy of his own life. "No poet of Northern Europe," says Robertson, "expresses as intensely a Lenau the feeling of 'eternal autumn', of unrelieved depair. And it is almost always a tragic despair, rarely that withering cynicism first made fashionable, by Byron asd imitated by Heine." Finally, when his life seemed on the point of becoming happier and brighter, he suddenly went insane...
Very obviously this is an unfortunate and almost tragic state of affairs. That the words of intelligent men, thinkers of real insight and some practical ability, should be unable to reach the ears of the powers that be is due largely to those two superstitions of our political leaders, silence and economy. Senators and other party leaders will perhaps read the report of the Columbia specialists, but what effect will their words have on the settlement of the debts? Almost certainly they will have none. The debts have come to have a bitter, almost raucous note in conversation. Forty...