Word: tragically
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...never too late to amend a tragic blunder and enable a sister democracy to exercise its legal right of purchasing arms from us. While it is true that this should have been done long ago, it required the unbridled aggression of the past year in Austria, Czechoslovakia, China, and Spain, finally to convince millions of Americans that sooner or later, unless the aggressors were stoped, the peace and security of their own democracy would be threatened...
...problem of distributing them was next to insoluble. For every road in the area was choked with refugees, not only a half million that had left Barcelona, but thousands more that the advancing Rebels swept before them. It was one of history's greatest and most tragic hegiras. From heights on the French frontier as far as eye could see a steady river of humanity slowly rolled toward the border...
...Mice and Men" is the kind of play which makes erstwhile adamant lovers of realism break ground and run for the affectionate softnesses of rosy romanticism. Some have termed it "a poetic idyll," some "stark" or "tragic" or "harrowing" or have used infinite combinations of all these terms. Whatever its effect on individuals, the play tells the story of Lennie, a monstrous halfwit, who absent-mindedly crushes the life out of small rodents because he likes to feel their fur; before the final act has run its macabre course, Lennie has so perfected the fine art of strong arm caressing...
Typical Abdul-Wahab screen plot: a poor fellah (peasant), desperately in love with a rich man's daughter, realizes the futility of his situation, sings a few tragic songs, commits suicide...
Kidded on the campus, pointed at in public, Roy Riegels began to brood. He tried to forget those ten tragic seconds, but the world refused to forget. When, after graduation, he got a job as coach at a California high school, spectators heckled him from the stands: "Why don't you teach them to run the right way?'' When introduced to strangers, he was invariably greeted with the same exclamation: "Oh, you're the guy who ran the wrong...