Word: triumph
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chamberlain's speech gave the impression that he thought Mussolini & Hitler were right, from their points of view, in thinking that now was the time, before Britain has completed her rearmament, to throw heavier forces into Spain and try to secure on that peninsula a Fascist triumph which the stout-hearted Britons of 1914 would have resisted to the utmost...
This was a triumph for the extreme Leftists, who hold that tips are humiliating. Declared Minister of Labor Jean Lebas during the heated Chamber debate: "The worker should not receive as alms what is his right!" Under the bill, which faces strong opposition in the more conservative Senate, workers caught soliciting or accepting tips would be penalized. The money would be made up to them, and more, in regular wages obtained under the workers' Blum-given collective bargaining contracts. The cost would be passed on to the public by 15% or 20% price increases at restaurants, cafes, cinemas...
...world hailed this as a great triumph of French civilization. The Tuaregs settled down, but for two years practically no rain fell. This winter the rain failed again. The goats and cattle died, the wells dried up, the date palms withered. The 240,000 Blue People were starving to death and with them 1,300,000 neighboring Berbers. As many as 200,000 actually died. Folding their tents, loading their mangy camels, 1,000,000 of them started a grim, slow march north toward the Atlas and the more fertile lands beyond...
People are strange little animals, as you have been told. At different times in different places they are different. Massed at a football up-and-down-the-field, they are one voice--either of solemn despair or of deafening triumph. Applauding Arthur Fiedler or Gypsy Rose Lee, they are like seals chapping their fins madly and nasally honking for more-fish...
...cost: $400) as the Procession passed, the King & Queen bowed close up, the excited Princesses waved and giggled. By no means perfect, this visual report was acclaimed by all its subscribers as marvelously satisfying and the London Times proudly thundered: ''The supreme trial has brought a notable triumph...