Word: triumph
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rnberg last week. He then proceeded to turn the annual Nazi Party Congress into a great, step-by-step building of war fright throughout Europe. The evident object was to bluff Czechoslovakia and her friends into the best possible deal for the Sudeten Germans and give Hitler another triumph to flash before his people...
...Stooge Cárdenas-and that was all people thought he was-to smash the Calles machine within a year, send his Boss flying, and in four years reorganize the Party with his own henchmen in key posts has been a hard-fought triumph. "The Sphinx" used to be the army nickname of General Cárdenas,' and with a grim, silent, unrelenting energy like that of Stalin he bored from within the Party and had captured it before his power was realized. "I never was really a soldier-just an armed citizen!" The President is fond of saying...
Canea. Dictator Metaxas announced that the revolt was over, the rebels surrendering or fleeing to the hills. It was; they were. Having achieved this triumph, the Prussian-educated dictator seized the opportunity to announce that he had been made "Premier for life...
...directors of proven worth, of collaborating on stories, got a new teammate, Robert Riskin, who had started writing scenarios at the age of 17. Lady for a Day, one of their early collaborations, got runner-up honors from the Motion Picture Academy and indirectly facilitated Capra's triumph the next year. Before Producer Cohn borrowed Clark Gable from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for It Happened One Night, Gable had been cast only in heavily romantic roles. Capra decided he was a comedian, directed him accordingly. Now Gable is called upon frequently for comedy roles...
...curtains drawn, to shut out vague Danger. After the last star turn, the Queen, then the King were seen expressing themselves earnestly to the President and Mme Lebrun, finally won their point and appeared on the low balcony amid pandemonium which made their last night in Paris a real triumph. Although M. Sarraut almost swooned with anxiety, nobody took a shot at George...