Word: triumph
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dern, Speaker of the House Byrns and a large delegation of Congressmen and Senators assemble in Manila for the Commonwealth's inaugural, they will be ushering into old, Spanish-built Malacanan Palace the first Filipino to occupy that seat of government. For brown men it will be a great triumph to see the Governor General moved out of the palace, demoted to Resident High Commissioner. Further loss to white face in the Orient was the fact that until July 4, 1946, when the Philippines become absolutely autonomous, the natives will do all the governing and the U. S. will have...
...been signed by President Roosevelt. Figuring that his crusade had cost him about $20,000, Lawyer Mann declared: "It was a hobby. I'd have spent a lot more if I'd had it. It's cheaper than yachts and booze and women; and no headaches." Lawyer Mann's triumph was only a little dimmed by the fact that just one of the 1,377 original claimants turned up to collect his pay. Nor did he feel lost with out his longtime cause. "My real hobby is the Constitution," cried he. "I'm going to fight for that...
...Stammers took care of Carolin Babcock in the quarterfinals. Sarah Palfrey Fabyan took care of Kay Stammers the next day. On the afternoon of the Allison-Perry match, to which her characteristic bad luck made her own triumph an anticlimax, Helen Jacobs quickly and calmly took care of Sarah Palfrey Fabyan herself...
...Rome the Dictator's Press called this Politis decision ''virtually an Italian triumph." In Addis Ababa the Emperor's newsorgan termed it "substantially a victory for Ethiopia...
...exuberance, Governor Tannery makes a musty hobby of 17th and 18th Century first editions on which he writes dull, learned monographs. Dressed in the conventional black of French functionaries, he often noses unnoticed among the bookstalls along the Seine, seeking a bargain-treasure which he bears off in quiet triumph to his admiring wife and daughters three...