Word: tragically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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ELIZABETH AND ESSEX, A Tragic History-Lytton Strachey-Harcourt Brace...
...London Daily Express-owned by the most potent of Canadian-born peers, Lord Beaverbrook. Editor Blumenfeld toured the U.S., this autumn, as guest of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Last week, back in London, he told of the one ineffaceable memory of his tour-Prohibition, "the greatest, most tragic joke any nation played upon itself in the history of civilization...
Both biographies exonerate the Empress, but from extremes of viewpoint. With infinite richness of detail, and anecdote of close personal relationship that ended only hours before the tragic finale, the Baroness depicts her mistress as devoted mother, and faithful servant of Russia, indefatigable in charity, painstaking in her advice to the tsar. The Princess, on the contrary, emphasizes Alexandra's ineptitude for social leadership; her temperamental incompatibility with Russian subtleties of mood and method; her stubborn persistence in meddling with political affairs which she did not understand...
Orchestras played their symphonies last week, operas spilled their tragic tales, but in Manhattan, in Philadelphia, Baltimore, Toronto, Brooklyn, Boston, wherever she went, the season's sensation was always La Argentina (TIME, Nov. 19). She has danced ten times in Manhattan now, has seven more recitals scheduled. Tickets stay at a premium, crowds are turned away from every performance...
Years later Grant flattered himself that he too was a Wall Street potentate, only to learn in tragic finale that again he had been duped, used, ruined. Yet, under stress of terrific pain (cancer) his pathetic persistence in scribbling memoirs that would support his widow is the courageous characteristic that well overshadows faults and stupidities...