Word: tragically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Padano of Ferrara, a minor Fascist organ, founded by Air Marshal Italo Balbo, Governor of Libya, took the crack at Bolshevism for which all Italians were itching: "We are born antiCommunists, and we intend to remain so. We have not an ounce of sympathy for the Bolsheviks, who are tragic buffoons, professional tricksters, models of vulgar bestiality, living monsters serving the most insane and infamous enterprise of subjugation, cruelty and human degredation which universal history can recall...
...sense of defeat moves very swiftly, it has no time to become tragic and explicit, and therefore suffering never quite becomes spiritual. No state is ever an end in itself, is ever scrutinized and preserved. [People] do not know the true meaning of wisdom, of evil, of peace...
Another movie in which he "had lots of fun" was "Midnight", with Claudette Colbezi, in which he took the part of a judge. Comedy suits him fine, he said, and though the really great parts are tragic ones, comedy ordinarily requires more finesse and timing, he declared...
...Tragic Hour." There was no scorn in the reports of one expression of desire for peace. All week from Rome came stories that the Pope would propose a general conference, hoping to create a Catholic Polish buffer state between godless Russia and pagan Germany. But no proposal came. Instead, at ten o'clock one morning last week, before the Polish Ambassador, the Polish Primate and a large audience of Polish priests and nuns, the Pope walked to the throne in the Pontifical Palace of Castel Gandolfo, to offer words of consolation to "his children of Catholic Poland" in this...
...Price Rainey: "We cannot escape the fact that we belong to the culture pattern of Western Europe which is represented by England and France. Hence if these countries should face defeat, we would find it difficult to remain out of the struggle. . . . We may ... be on the verge of tragic days for our young people...