Word: triumph
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Brown Views-Final passage of H. R. 7233 filled brown little Camilo Osias, Philippine resident commissioner in the House, with a sense of personal triumph. Cried he: "Mr. Speaker, I rise to give thanks! When this bill becomes law, it will be a new charter in human liberty which the people have gotten heretofore only through bloodshed. . . . The provisions of the measure will be carried out in a manner which will do credit to the American people as well as to the Filipinos. . . . Patriotic Filipinos can ill begrudge the hardships that may be occasioned, knowing full well that liberty...
...casting of The Son-Daughter, originally listed as a Joan Crawford picture, sounds like a triumph of mismanagement but it works out surprisingly well. Helen Hayes has to struggle a little with her role as Lien Wha but she manages to give it pathos and simplicity. Tom Lee is Ramon Novarro with his sideburns shaved off far above his ears. The rest of a strikingly Caucasian cast plays in the tradition for oriental melodrama-keeping the right hand in the left coat sleeve and saying little. Warner Oland as the Chinese gambler seems most at home in his surroundings...
...crushed M.I.T. on the Technology, courts Saturday afternoon by a score of 5 to 0, in spite of the fact that neither of the two topranking Crimson, starts participated. In the league match on the preceding afternoon against the Business School, the college A team eked out a scanty triumph of 3 to 2. In the feature game, the ability of Robert Grant'35 to return many of the neo-aces of Patterson did not offset his inability to prevent the ball from coming off the back wall, and he bowed before the former Harvard squash captain's experience...
...homely commonsense, which were the national ideals of the nineteen twenties. His fame increased as the ludicrous discordance between these ideals and the sordid reality was ignored. With them he achieved a career of amazing good fortune with little exertion, no supreme test of his capacity, and the final triumph of the presidency. The combination was one which suited exactly the taste of the nation as it then...
Inasmuch as his retirement from public office saved him from the general debacle of the Republicans, he continued in modest triumph till his death. But in reality, that debacle, and the confutation of the threadbare beliefs which he expressed in office and through the syndicated press, left him politically speaking, a discredited and pathetic figure. It is obvious that the nation has gone beyond Mr. Coolidge's exceed and will not return to it. There remains only the memory of his personality and its perfect adequacy for what America demanded of its chief executive when he was in office...