Word: glorious
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Commenting on the sudden death of a comrade who was running to catch a train, Railton once wrote: "Today's great news to me has been that of Major Elmslie's glorious rush up the railway steps into heaven...
...Triumph," one of the "classic" films of German propaganda, describes a yearly meeting of the Nazi Party at Nuremberg between 1934 to 1936, when the party was at the height of its power. Directed by Lent Rifenstahl, who also filmed the Berlin Olymples, it emphasizes and illustrates the "glorious destiny" of the party...
Thin, dark-eyed Isaac Allal was the child of a poor tailor in the squalid Tunisian village of La Marsa; he grew up with the pale face and the weak lungs of a ghetto child. Then one day last month a glorious vista opened for him. Relief officials told the Allals that Isaac could go to a convalescent camp in Norway, and from there to Israel...
...future is ours . . . let's give cheers to Chairman Mao and the new People's Republic . . ." When the applause was over, a mixed glee club took over with propaganda-packed songs: Sending off Sweethearts to the Front, Chiang's Reign Is All a Mess, and The Glorious New Five-Starred National Flag...
...show was intended to represent solutions to "the problem of adequately-or gloriously-commemorating the sacrifice of those soldiers and sailors who died in battle." The question was: Were its solutions adequate, let alone glorious...