Word: tragical
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...intentions and bad judgment. To the French campaigns in Algeria (1869) two heroes are dispatched. When they return to their little French village the heroine has disappeared. Fifty years intervene and a ridiculous reunion is maneuvered with the weary principals in long white hair. The producers tried to be tragic, and succeeded in being funny. Sagara battle scenes and the acting of Charles DeRoche are the major marks of excellence...
...Prometheus Unbound. Prometheus, legendary hero, brought fire to mortals and as punishment was chained to Mount Caucasus by Zeus, where an eagle by day devoured his liver, which grew again during the night. Aeschylus, Greek tragic poet, wrote two dramas: 1) Prometheus Bound, telling this story, and 2) Prometheus Unbound, telling of the deliverance of the hero by Hercules after a reconciliation of the former with Zeus. Shelley, in his poem, changes the plot somewhat- makes Prometheus an even more adamantine hero who refuses to bow to Zeus, overthrows him, liberates mankind...
...immortal Romney's genius who called her his "Divine Lady," to be the Lady of the Embassy at the British Legation in Naples and dazzling centre of its brilliance, to be the intimate of the intriguing and lovely Neapolitan Queen, Marie Caroline, sister to Marie Antoinette of tragic memory, and lastly to be the passion and inspiration of Nelson, hero of Trafalgar. Illiterate, geistlos, breathtakingly beautiful, object of adoration and of scorn, Emma Hamilton's star flashed through triumphant, troublous skies, and two centuries have not quenched its sullied splendor...
...people of Paris have a curious sense of humor and no matter how tragic a circumstance may be they can always find in it de quoi rire...
Wrangel Island, 400 miles northwest of Bering Strait, is a forbidding mass of naked granite rock (35x70 miles), rising more than 2,000 ft. out of the Arctic Ocean. A dreary and blizzard-swept place, of tragic memory, it is nevertheless popular because of its possible usefulness as a base for future Arctic exploration...