Word: tragic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While Edith Sitwell renders what is probably the most forceful piece of poetry in her tragic memorial to all war orphans...
...very fortunate that the H.A.A. was able to arrange this schedule for Coach Cooney Weiland, for if they had not, it would have been a tragic waste of one of the best hockey teams the College has ever had. If Weiland can find a capable goalie to take the place of last year's Captain Jim Bailey, the varsity could go very...
...startle the unwary. It is a place of great men in small jobs, stubbornly resisting the mere geographical transition from Mayo or Offaly or Cork to a great city; it is a place echoing with anecdote, irony and the great Irish wastefulness of spirit involved in drink, tragic brooding and baffled frustration about women. "He's Irish and he broods easy," says one McNulty character of another...
...completed. The Harvardman's health is too valuable to be neglected. If prompt action is not taken to provide ample and convenient dental care, such well-known American expressions as "Flash that pearly grin, Tiger" and "You'll wonder where the yellow went" will assume bitterly ironic and tragic proportions...
...Algeria, and their determination to defend their homes even by installing pillboxes. From Manhattan, Commentator Eric Sevareid rounded up the issues, viewed them in light of the cold war and their implications for the U.S. Neither taking sides nor offering easy solutions where none exist, Algeria Aflame brought a tragic stalemate into sharp focus...