Word: tragical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...squarely where it belongs. If any scandal calls for national publicity, it is the Republican plunderbund's 50 years of public-be-damned despoilment of our city, to pay for which that party now resorts to taxing the pay envelope of the lowest wage earner. The tragic irony of "honest" (or stupid) Mayor Lamberton's inaugural words, "If it [my administration] fails, you can blame the Republican Party," must be obvious to all but Philadelphia's majority of smug and supine voters. Also TIME-worthy is the Mayor's earlier advice to city employes that loyalty...
...whole affair; gradually we managed to piece the story together and find out what had actually happened. We learned that the Yorkshire had taken only eight and a half minutes to sink, and that three lifeboats had been smashed by the explosion. We learned, too, of the particularly tragic fate of one boatload. It was No. 5 boat, the one in which I should have been. Several women and children had been put in before the sea had come aboard the promenade deck, and afterwards a few more had managed to get in from the boat deck. The lifeboat itself...
Last week Washington correspondents hammering out their forecasts could not agree on a name for the '30s as apt as the title of the Tragic Era had been for Reconstruction. But their prophecies and backward looks combined to give the raw material that would enable future historians to characterize that decade-a purgatorial period that followed a fool's paradise, a time of confusion and panic, of scrimping, self-pity, despair, of painful reform of the social system, a time when Al Capone and Richard Whitney at last went to jail and many a liberal as stubborn...
...Rudyard Kipling's first novel, made into a picture for the second time. Ida Lupino (re-emerging after a long hibernation) throws a rousing fit of hysterics as the hoydenish model who defaces Ronald Colman's pictorial masterpiece just after he goes blind. Unfortunately for the tragic effect, cinemaudiences can see for themselves that the blind artist's masterpiece is a daub...
...Theodore Leonidowitch Althausen, of the University of California, long worried over tragic mistakes made in diagnosing these two diseases. For several years he tried to devise a method which would tell whether a patient suffering from hyperthyroidism also had diabetes. Doctors always assumed that diabetics and hyperthyroids, after meals, passed sugars into their bloodstreams at the same rate of speed. But Dr. Althausen questioned this belief, set to work on the hunch that the rate of speed of sugar absorption depends directly upon the amount of thyroxin produced by the thyroid gland. Thus, hyperthyroids would absorb sugars at a higher...