Word: tragical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tonight and tomorrow night the Radcliffe Idler Club will present as its spring production the best mystery play of the last few seasons. "Ladies in Retirement" was the first of the long series of murder plays, both comic and tragic, that have flooded Broadway--culminating in this season's "Angel Street." But "Ladies" has not yet been surpassed for not only is it excellently constructed through plot and dialogue, but it is also finely executed in characterization and in use of comic relief upon a tragic theme. Anyone who saw the Flora Robson production of this play will remember...
...best of his knowledge, Morize said, the recent British raids on Paris have done nothing to alienate the feelings of the population. "They consider it a sad, tragic necessity," he stated, revealing that the French have often sheltered British aviators forced to land on their soil, and that French women decorated the graves of British pilots killed in action...
...indiscriminate expulsion of first and second generation Japanese in California did not come from the masses of the people. Even when Californians were still stunned by the sudden attack on Pearl Harbor, there was great sympathy for the Isei and Nisei [alien and citizen Japs] placed in this tragic position through no fault of their own. Most Californians were content to let the FBI weed out the undesirables...
...time for cajolery and promises was past. The Nazi recruiting program turned to tried & true Nazi methods: Dutch labor conscripts, said the Free Dutch Government in London last week, are being forced into German uniforms to avoid "tragic consequences" for their families at home...
...whole tragic situation can be traced to the British conservatives who have given Indians no chance to lead their own people, even in local affairs. The country will be lost, and with it 390 million people, and an area as large as Europe...