Word: triumph
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago intends to ship east another carload of mid-west Kultur, in the shape of its Civic Shakespeare Company. Boston, too, discovered Shakespeare for a time this autumn, but hurriedly let him drop and went back to the talkies. But perhaps the dominant mid-west will mark up another triumph. It suffered an apparent defeat a year or two ago, when the Chicago Tribune, in the early throes of Boston's censorship campaign, suggested that Harvard should be moved brick by brick, out to where the art begins. Instead, it was found more convenient, and nearly as effective, to send...
...Hoboken Blues, Fiesta. Says he: "Both were flops." He has also written 120 Million. He is on the board of the New Playwrights' Theatre supported by Capitalist Otto H. Kahn. Last February the New Playwrights gave a dinner, invited Maecenas Kahn, made many speeches attacking capitalism, prophesying the triumph of the workers. Banker Kahn, bland, smiling, replied in the best speech of the evening. Intimated he: I give my money gladly to artistic experiments, am willing to take a chance on thereby upsetting the social order...
...Pell '08 has scored his twelfth victory in the Gold Racquet squash tourney at Tuxedo Park, N. Y. He defeated Lord Aberdare, of England, in the final round, 15-10, 15-6, 15-12. By this triumph Pell has obtained the permanent possession of his fourth trophy for this event. The tourney was the twenty-fourth of the annual series...
...Congress adjourned the Executive Committee in its character of Government immediately called upon the 145 members of the Central Indian Legislative Assembly to resign. At once 23 did resign. The Government then fixed Jan. 26 as the date for a "nationwide demonstration." Great was the triumph of India's ascetic little Saint, famed Mahatma Gandhi, boss-politician and demigod of the Congress. Usually he wears only a loin cloth, but at the final session at which his Declaration of Independence was adopted he appeared exclusively clad in a large white sheet which flapped dramatically as he gestured...
...Prince Henri Robert Ferdinand Marie Louis Philippe, is hailed as Le Dauphin de France, or Crown Prince. One day last week as the North Star express from Brussels thundered into Paris, there occurred such a demonstration that pop-eyed strangers might have supposed the Royal Family were returning in triumph to resume their reign...