Word: triumph
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Noble and friendly nations frame the shores of the Mediterranean," he began, palpably aiming a compliment at Italy. "One of them partook of our recent terrible trials [the World War] and fought valorously and gloriously at our side for the defense and the triumph of a great cause. In the course of that struggle our community of cultural interests and sentiment affirmed itself in so striking a fashion that I am convinced the memory of it will always remain living and active in our hearts...
...first person by the murderer. Of "dangerous" Ruth Snyder (Grace Haxall in the book) Author Matthews makes the most: sends her eyes through the salesman (Todd Lorimer) at their first meeting, undresses her slowly, describes almost nothing except her effect on the salesman, brings up her fiercely female triumph in nakedness before the furnace where they are burning the evidence of their guilt. The Macbeth-like decline of Todd Lorimer under the influence of Lady Macbeth Haxall is dignified by making him a salesman of sofas instead of corsets, a man whose wife is cold and whose mother lives with...
...Madrid, mechanically-minded medical students approached their school bearing in triumph a large wooden catapult with which they intended to cobblestone the police. The police, in their tightly belted, skirtlike green-grey capes, charged before the catapult could be set up. There was a fusillade of shots. A Civil guard cavalryman was killed. A messenger boy delivering football tickets 100 yards down the street was severely wounded. Two days later Madrid students attempted a march on the Royal Palace, led by dozens of shouting, excited girls. Police, with Spanish gallantry kept their swords sheathed, thumped the girls' heads with rubber...
...doubles tennis score of two Davises, pere et fils, in defeating MM Claviez and Peysson, French Indo-China's champions, was 5-7, 6-1, 6-0. After this triumph all three Davises motored out to Pnom Penh, capital of Cambodia (French), seat of that good-natured puppet, King Sisowath Monivong. Upon Governor General Davis, His Majesty bestowed the Grand Cordon of the Royal Order. Stiff little women in pearl-encrusted cloth-of-gold performed a royal ballet. Then the Davis party motored on to Siam, lamenting perhaps that U. S. Colonial policy does not permit the existence of genial...
Director Lewis Milestone makes The Front Page triumph magnificently over a few trivial defects...