Word: triumph
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Christmas-New Year's week for Washington's young blades and merry maidens. The President is generally on hand to beam benignly upon the offspring of Administration bigwigs as they frisk around in tails and trains at the scene of their parents' highest social triumph. The only taboo at such White House parties is taking young ladies behind potted palms...
Each year with the exception of the time that the Cadets scored their triumph, the Harvard team comes to the Yale meet with its record unblemished. It's discouraging to contemplate the regularity with which the Elis have destroyed a perfect season. But those in the know seem to think that Yale's domination is waning and point to the closer H-Y scores as an Indication that the Crimson will yet be the ruin of the Blue...
...Presbyterian William Jennings Bryan became the great lay leader of Fundamentalism, carrying his crusade to the little Tennessee mountain town of Dayton. There the Lion of the Lord treated the entire world to a spectacular courtroom battle against Evolution, only to die in his sleep just after a mighty triumph over Schoolteacher John Thomas Scopes...
Minna Harris is a triumph of craftsmanship. The entire book centers about her. She is not always on the scene but her presence is everywhere felt. It is not only that all the rest of the characters depend on her economically but that she furnishes a great deal of the motive force behind the action. I, for one, amperfectly convinced that Minna's creator has done justice in bringing her back to the shanty after the temptation of marriage. Like Jenny, Grandma and Amy, Minna belongs in the Schlaraffenland which she has done so much to create...
...young, starlit and sudden, comes to the stage when Octavian, clad in shining satin and bearing a silver rose, is sent to ask a rich young heiress to marry the Baron. Most operas end tragically but when Octavian and Sophie have finished their duet it is clear love will triumph...