Word: tragically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Alderman Ferrier eventually opined, "Steerforth brought disgrace upon little Em'ly, a Yarmouth girl. Although he himself came to a tragic end, it is not advisable to perpetuate his name unduly." The Council agreed; banished "Steerforth Avenue" from its deliberations...
...participate immediately and without conditions in the work of the World Court, thus becoming a member state, are accused of being isolationists, of working against world peace, and of being unwilling to substitute law for war. Nothing could be more unfounded and foolish than this accusation. It betrays a tragic lack of objectivity on the part of most of the propagandists for the World Court. They are under the spell of a great idea; to them the World Court issue has become the symbol and test of America's willingness to cooperate with other nations in the effort to diminish...
...Fedora, Maria Jeritza was about to drain a glass of poison in the presence of the tenor hero (Giovanni Martinelli). She climbed upon a table, swayed there in tragic, shimmering loveliness. The table toppled, collapsed, spilled her into Martinelli...
Said James M. Cox, onetime Governor of Ohio (1913-15, 1917-19, 1919-21), onetime candidate for President: "A thousand Lodge books or their like will never save the Senatorial conspirators from the place they made for themselves in history. Each day and its events increasingly reveal the tragic consequences of their political madness...
Although Mr. Hopper does not regret his career as a comedian, he admits that most humorous actors have a longing to appear in tragic roles. Mr. Hopper told the reporter that he had started as a tragical actor, but that his voice drew him into the musical field. "I have sometimes nurtured an ambition to make my audience weep, and of all the roles I have played on the stage, my favorite is that of Jack Point in Gilbert and Sullivan's 'Yeoman of the Guard', a strolling jester who dies of a broken heart. I revel in that little...