Word: triumph
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Everywhere political wiseacres interpreted Franklin Roosevelt's failure to crack down on "naughty" Senators Adams and McCarran-right after the triumph of "naughty" Senator Van Nuys in Indiana [see p. 11]-as "the end of the Roosevelt Party Purge...
...diseased hip. Accounting themselves new interpreters of the "scientific teachings" of Jesus Christ, the Fillmores set out to devote their lives to spreading the gospel of Unity, declaring that man could maintain direct communication with God (in morning and evening "silences"), and that Unity could, and eventually would, triumph over death. For their work the Fillmores resolved to charge no fees, merely accepted "love offerings." Of love offerings there were plenty...
...great French victory. But, as Vincent Sheean says, "it was a victory of lost causes; it raised hopes which were never to be satisfied," it seemed that France had vanquished England, and that the hopes of the Irish exiles, of "Bonnie Prince Charlie," were to triumph. But the English fleet still ruled the seas, and French colonies in Canada and India were soon to be lost despite Fontenoy. In A Day of Battle, Sheean (Personal History) set himself the difficult task of both describing the brilliance of this victory and illustrating its historic unimportance...
...Battle, a far better book than Mr. Sheean's last novel, Sanfelice, is compact and tightly organized instead of sprawling and discursive. But having acknowledged the historical unimportance of the victory, Mr. Sheean's triumph with A Day of Battle sometimes resembles the triumph of the French at Fontenoy...
...been speaking to the board for 40 years. In the late 1890s, when John Carrere and Thomas Hastings designed the big building at the corner of 42nd St. and Fifth Ave. in Manhattan, they had ambitious plans for the upstairs panels. They thought of John Singer Sargent, whose gaudy Triumph of Religion in the Boston Public Library they admired. They thought of James Abbott McNeill Whistler. Whistler died in 1903. The library, privately endowed (only the building is public property), was too poor to pay Sargent's price, too proud to give the job to anyone but a really...