Word: triumph
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Magda, the ex-mistress, shoots Elector Max, Zimri's Brotherhood of Man seems about to triumph, for the Minister of Agriculture becomes dictator and summons the Zimri group to power. But after the followers of the late Messiah get one good look at the clever plan of attacking Italy, they turn sternly from peace to war. A satire on the nature of power, Destiny's Man can be recommended to all surviving anarchists...
Smashing three swimming records in a 47-18 triumph over Brookline High Thursday afternoon, the Freshman mermen gained their third victory of the season, taking first place in all events and winning both the medley and the 200yard relays...
That night there was a bigger banquet, this time in Palazzo Venezia, with over 1,000 carefully checked guests. After all the real triumph of last week was the fact that Pierre Laval was actually in Rome-the first French Cabinet Minister to take that inevitable road since...
...insufferably dull. They are diverted by nothing about it so much as the quiet but firm sway of the proprieties over groups that affect to live like nymphs and fauns. The truth of the matter seems to be that the average nudist is a puritan. . . . He notes with triumph that he experiences no wicked reactions to visions that are allegedly wicked. This indulgence may seem thoroughly absurd; but when the League of Decency sets out to have it pronounced immoral, is it not simply compounding an absurdity...
...Soto was an even bigger Chrysler headache in 1934, for all models were Airflow. And De Soto's sales dropped from 20,000 in 1933 to about 11,000 last year. From an engineering standpoint the car was a triumph but people were suspicious of an automobile which looked the same from both ends. This year De Soto also has an Airstream in addition to a modified Airflow...