Word: tragically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...worthy of being loved by a poet. . . .' He must have taken his life during a fit of passing madness. . . . Still, he had a distaste for this materialistic world. . . . His poems were about things like horses and clods of earth and revolutions. . . . My consolation is that they will survive his tragic death...
...Here we are at the trial to see whether the Transportation act will work. We are to see whether this is a consistent piece of legislation intended to strike midway between doing nothing and Government ownership. It is of almost tragic importance in that it is the first attempt to try out a national policy, and the suggestion of fraud is most unfortunate. It will have no effect here, but it goes spawning through the records and hatches new troubles and difficulties in out of the way places...
Charlie is a finished director, a tragic, sympathetic, little actor, and a very great genius in his way. Syd is a funny man, and after you have said that you have said everything. Admittedly he has no further ambition than to make his public laugh. He is a gag man, a female impersonator, and somewhat of a slap-stick clown. In no wise does he resemble brother Charles...
...question therefore seems so important to me that I should regard it as nothing short of tragic if President Harding's proposal should fail. I say this first of all because of my interest in the development of international law. But I say it also because of my interest in America and her having a place in the sun. For a generation we exhorted the world to build a court. Today, I think the problem is this Court or none. I cannot imagine success for a new effort. I think it comes with bad grace for us to propose...
...white-collared class make a tremendous and tragic mistake when we say that the only reason that a common laborer works is to earn money," declared Whiting Williams, business man who has lived for years as a laborer, at Phillips Brooks House last evening. "There is a spiritual factor: every worker maintains his standing as a man among men by the nature of his job, by his standing as a craftsman among craftsmen, irrespective of the money return "which the job brings...