Word: triumph
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...November, 1918. He wrote in his memoirs: "On November 17 the Allied armies crossed the lines they held at the moment hostilities ceased. . . . On the 25th I entered Metz and on the 26th Strasbourg." He did not think it important to add one other fact. When he rode in triumph into Metz and Strasbourg, Marshal Foch car- ried in his hand the ancient curved sabre of General Kl?...
...began his speech opening the Exposition with an allusion to his father's visit to Argentina 50 years ago. He closed by recalling that 80 years ago his great-grandmother. Queen Victoria, after opening the London International Exposition of 1851, went home and wrote in her diary: "The triumph is immense...
...post facto; dies irae; e pluribus unum; usque ad nauseam; Ursa Major; sic semper tyrannis; quid pro quo; requiescat in pace'. Now this foolery was immensely taking in the day of it. . . The story was, on the whole, so good as showing how the man of the people could triumph over the crafts and subtleties of classical pundits that all Philistia wanted to believe it. And so it came to pass, as time went on, part of Philistia did believe it, for I have heard it mentioned as an actual occurrence...
...your jeering methods, your hisses! But understand you'll never tie the Democratic party down to death and destruction for lack of men who scorn your hisses and defy your unfair methods. . . . If the Democracy would cease this foolishness over liquor we could go forward to a great triumph...
...Rumania accepted his invitation to come to Maryhill" and dedicate it as a Museum of Fine Arts. Said she: "Samuel Hill is a dreamer. I, too, am a dreamer. And who shall say that dreams won't come true?" The tour which he intended to be a triumph was a disappointment; it ended in bickering among the Queen and her friend Col. John Carroll, her aide Major Stanley Washburn, San Francisco Socialite Mrs. Adolph Spreckels, and the Queen's elderly friend. Dancer Loie Fuller...