Word: triumph
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This week, just before the new Parliament met and Premier Sarraut hastened to make way for M. Blum, that anxious old gentleman warned a Socialist Party congress that extreme Left sabotage would invite a Fascist triumph. Said he: "Some people say that ours will be a Kerensky government, that it will be working to prepare the way for a Lenin, who will be the one to benefit. That is not so. In France, if some Kerensky were to fail, it would not be a Lenin who would be the beneficiary...
...pointedly neglecting to affix to the prow of his boat a vine or "string" which was supposed to placate the devil, bring a good catch. After three fruitless days the tribesmen were about to rebel, when Tatagu spied a large school of the succulent makasi fish. Returning home in triumph, the Chief of Chiefs learned that a son had been born to him. In accordance with a local custom of naming progeny after the most important event of the moment, Tatagu called his babe Kata Ragoso, meaning "No Devil Strings...
...residence with the tacit consent of Kate's husband, the fatuous dandy, Captain William O'Shea. Aspiring to political position which he can gain only through Parnell's favor, O'Shea makes himself so universally disliked that a breach arises in the Irish Party on the eve of their triumph, at the moment when Gladstone has tentatively promised to introduce the Home Rule Bill. Sensing the division in the Irish ranks, the "old fox" manages to split the leaders from Parnell by asserting that he cannot do anything for a cause which is captained by a notorious libertine. Parnell...
...high mark in race course architecture for spaciousness, charm and luxury. The new clubhouse itself has no equal even among the great New York hotels in point of originality, furnishings and decorations. Col. Winn himself outlined and designed the lounge room. Modernistic to the last touch, it is a triumph of the decorator...
This was a great triumph for a great political bargainer. The compromise: 1) guaranteed an increase in revenue, which the House's untried taxes did not; 2) limited the undistributed profits tax to a comparatively harmless size; 3) preserved the semblance of the President's tax proposals. But Chairman Harrison's troubles were not over. The Treasury came back with a report that his compromise would yield only $629,000,000 revenue the first year, $529,000,000 thereafter. Pat Harrison wearily asked the Treasury to try figuring out a bigger yield from the same taxes...