Word: tragical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bruce: "I can conceive of nothing more deplorable, nothing more tragic, nothing more scandalous, but I take human nature as it is. In other words, I look at this question exactly as the Free Soiler looked at the institution of slavery...
...have just witnessed one of the most tragic failures British diplomacy has ever...
...then there is the man who lifts his hat with both hands--no, he is in the comedy. But they are all comedies? No--one is really tragic. For is it not tragedy which stalks in the contoritionist's soul as he leaps, jumps, hurls himself before Bebe's car--to die? Of course not. Contoritionists never die when automobiles hit them. They just confort. So she saved the fifty thousand dollars and the Boston lawyer quel homme! So droll, and with what a black...
...shall not criticize the Treaty of Versailles. It is a fact. It is what it is. If I had been called upon to frame it, I would say could have done no better. . But I can hear again that tragic dialog which took place when the Chamber was called on to give assent to that treaty! Anxiety for our security occupied every mind. We questioned it. M. Clemenceau was asked would this Anglo-American guarantee hold, for which we had abandoned our natural frontier. We were reminded of certain incidents which showed that, perhaps, America would not, after all, give...
...When we pressed as to what England's altitude would be if the United States failed to ratify, I hear again his tragic answer, his arms stretched out to heaven...