Word: tragically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Park. He made no attempt to grapple with the New Deal in argument. His was what his friends would call an appeal to principle and his enemies an appeal to prejudice. A score of times he made his audience bellow with amusement, yet his address was delivered in a tragic spirit. To Al Smith, the Democracy was in danger, and Al Smith was sounding the alarm...
...technique of the many short scenes and shots gives an insatiable and horrible rhythm to the play, a rhythm reinforced and given a high tragic emphasis by the force and poignant vigor of McLaglen's acting. The gloom of the foggy night with its almost animate compulsion of remorse and terror and repentance and the tale of revolutionary passion in the furtive Republican Army provide a grim warp along which the fate of the informer is woven with almost classical measuredness and tragic purpose. It is unfortunate that the construction is not a little more closely knit. The reason...
...George V not only the Empire but also the whole world saw the sole Emperor of white race not to lose his throne after the War. There was at that time a memorable and tragic hour when even the refugee Romanovs, his cousins, had to be denied visas on which they were to have gone to England on the invitation of George V's impulsive mother, the Dowager Queen Alexandra. With thrones creaking from Berlin to Constantinople, the best and wisest British Cabinet members urgently advised the House of Windsor not to attract attention to this question by becoming...
United Pressman Ralph Heinzen, chief of the Paris Bureau, staked his reputation last week on a dispatch opening with this flat statement, "Leopold III, tragic young King of the Belgians, will attempt the hazardous role of Italo-Ethiopian Peace Maker which cost Sir Samuel Hoare his Foreign Ministry and shook the prestige of Premier Laval of France. . . . Rumors current in European diplomatic quarters for several weeks that Leopold was endeavoring to bridge Anglo-Italian differences are based upon fact." Two days before, Paris Correspondent Edmond Taylor of the Chicago Tribune went off the same deep end. In Geneva fear...
...slender, sinuous Carmen who looked like a gypsy. Here was one who took the prize for vulgarity, elbowing guards in the stomach, whistling hoydenishly, spitting out fruit skins, wriggling her hips. Most effective scene was when she read death in the cards, gave the toujours la mart all its tragic implications. Most debatable costume was a slinky black velvet affair with a top like a bullfighter's jacket. This she chose for the final act as a symbol of her submission to Escamillo, the toreador...