Word: tragical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...loved Claudia. . . . Between the duties of the principate and the dignity of the purple on the one hand, and on the other, his love for Claudia ... he was lashed into one of those tragic passions which wreck men's lives. . . . He was growing old waiting for the papal dispensation which would permit his marriage with Claudia...
...voted for a motion censuring the Government's ineffectiveness in dealing with the tragic national problem of unemployment. Although Conservatives number 412, the Labor motion was defeated by an adverse vote of only 331. Explanation: Even Conservatives are becoming worried at Mr. Baldwin's failure to reduce the number of the unemployed, which now stands at 1,242,000, an increase in the last year of 206,000. Not since the brief, disastrous period of the General Strike (TIME, May 10 to 24, 1926) have so many Britons been jobless. Ominous last week was a warning issued...
Last week the tragic Other Grandmama was reported to spend most of her days reclining and dozing in her small, sunny Florentine garden and most of her evenings with a faithful lady-in-waiting who reads and rereads the New Testament...
...neonatorum) is a common complaint. Gonorrhoeal infection is almost always the cause; contracted from the mother, or in an occasional instance from infected hands or articles. Total blindness is often the result, how often is indicated by the 25% of all blindness in children ascribed to it. This dark, tragic disease may be entirely prevented by therapy during pregnancy; may even be entirely cured, after having been contracted, by proper medical measures at birth. Many states, realizing this, have legally outlawed ophthalmia neonatorum, making prophylactic treatment of the eyes of newborns compulsory, supplying prophylactic outfits through health departments. The treatment...
...taboos of their priests. His magnetism soon drew twelve men as disciples, and together they wandered from village to village, humbly enjoying the success of the master's teachings and healings. This early, happy part of Jesus's life Ludwig presents in glowing contrast to the last tragic months of proud ambition, and violent vituperation of the priesthood, which inevitably led to his failure and crucifixion. In diagnosing Napoleon's career, and Bismarck's, Ludwig traced ascent to fame through youthful virility and brilliant ability, to anticlimax due to pride and hasty resentment. Perhaps something...