Word: tragical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said Dr. Wilkinson: "If you could have seen the tragic expression which came over the face of my splendid young son last evening when he was apprised of Wilbraham's decision, you would fully realize the serious implications and results of the pseudodemocracy existing in America today...
...little sin!"); of the male tops (macaronies) whose days were spent perfuming and prinking and whose powdered pompadours were sometimes almost as tall as their wearers; and of the poor, who sought escape from their horrible condition in gin-drinking-"at once the most pathetic and the most tragic of proletarian revolutions-an overthrow of order by the worst means, and toward the worst ends...
...know just why the trial was allowed to continue. But it did. Three generals testified that lack of French aviation was "stupefying"; that the "Sitzkrieg" had been "a period of stagnation"; that the press had undermined morale; that lack of liaison between air and army forces led to tragic blunders...
...combination of the talents of Ernst Lubitsch, Carole Lombard and Jack Benny would certainly indicate that a highly palatable movie is in order. "To Be Or Not To Be" attempts to be a delightful and implausible tale of intrigue, spies, Gestapo and such, moulded about the tragic downfall of Poland in 1939. Like Charlie Chaplin's ill-fated "The Great Dictator" its humor is based on ridiculing Hitler and the overly efficient machinations of the Gestapo. Whether the current film is your dish or not depends upon your ability to laugh at situations founded on material which is essentially tragedy...
...prohibition against entry which led to the sinking of the steamship Struma with the loss of seven hundred and fifty lives reveals in the most tragic way that appeasement still guides the British Colonial Office. These people had fled the Hitler terror in Rumania; they were seeking admission to the Jewish National Homeland. The refusal of the British to admit them was an infringement of the League Mandate under which England governs Palestine, a Mandate approved by the Congress of the United States. More than that, it was a denial of those principles of human justice for which the United...