Word: triumph
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: . . . Anent the story of the Washington peanut vendor, it is the perfect publicity story. If said story was saved during election campaign, it could net candidate using it 100,000 votes throughout the country. The story is the acme of a pressagent's glorious triumph-pathos, human interest, and the milk of human kindness- also BUNK. The story was obviously concocted to entrench more solidly the President with the ''masses," and of course it brought countless remarks from the gullible as to the kindness of the understanding pilot of the great ship of state. Would TIME...
...seems the disaster was complete-not only the pilots but the gondola and its scientific apparatus were utterly lost." Spontaneously the delegates rose, chanted the stirring Soviet hymn to the dead. But outside on the streets jubilant paraders continued proudly to congratulate each other on Russia's latest triumph. They were not to know the truth until next day's morning newspapers. But even then they could not know the whole truth. Nobody could. There was not enough left of the crushed gondola or the three broken bodies to supply the story of the tragedy. Guesses: 1) Winter...
Spengler describes himself as a "strong" pessimist. Though he considers the World War "a defeat of the white races, and the Peace of 1918 . . . the first great triumph of the coloured world," he holds out a small hope, no bigger than Hitler's hand, for the salvation of Western civilization. "There remains as a formative power only the warlike, 'Prussian' spirit-everywhere and not in Germany alone. . . . He whose sword compels victory here will be lord of the world. The dice are there ready for this stupendous game. Who dares to throw them...
...merely caused the fall of the government and came near to starting a general European war. I think that if M. Doumergue's artifice succeeds it will be not because it is an essentially clever move but simply because the French public realizes that the definite triumph of any one party will result in civil war or worse. No one faction in France was capable of taking advantage of the late disturbances in order to provoke a successful revolt against Republicanism; and it is extremely unlikely that they will be afforded a sufficient opportunity again. The crucial moment in France...
...Congressional groupings it will take, at the present rate of urban growth, ten years for them to acquire control of a majority of votes in the House and a minimum of twenty years in the Senate. Thus, while urbane politics presses upon us we need not expect its complete triumph for some years...