Word: triumph
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...daughter, oddly enough, of a woman whose selection by the Democratic party as candidate to oppose Martin Freemont complicates the novelist's plot to such an extent that it needs the entrance into the story of a complete gangland set-up to clear the way for the eventual triumph of young Freemont...
...years later the Dynasty of Bratianu seemed definitely down & out when scapegrace Carol (whom Ion had forced to abdicate) returned amid delirious triumph to Bucharest, thrust aside his own son, Boy King Mihai, and became King Carol II by an act of the Rumanian Parliament against which trembling old Vintila Bratianu alone had the courage to vote "No!" The rest of the Bratianu National Liberal Party abstained from voting and broken-hearted Vintila died later of apoplexy. King Carol ousted Mihai's mother, Queen Helen (now resident in England under the special favor and protection of George...
education for her child, Johann, who at an early age gives excellent promise of becoming as sure a musician as his worldly father. He has his triumph in 1844 when he succeeds in swaying Vienna more than had his father in his debut eighteen years before. Son is like father in many respects but he never forgets the debt he owes to the self-sacrificing mother who is at once the most human and the most herioc person in the biography. Mr. Ewen presents the contemporary life of the musician very factually; he considers the European tours of both...
Harvard's revamped football machine began to hit on all cylinders for the first time this season and Coach Casey's latest choices for Team A honors were the shining lights in the 12-6 triumph over Brown on Saturday...
Awarding a Nobel Prize, especially in literature, is a ticklish business. Only international prize of its kind, its bestowal on any world-citizen is regarded as a triumph for that citizen's country. Whether or not the Committee deals out its favors impartially, it obviously tries to rotate them. Last year the Nobel Prize in Literature went to England (the late John Galsworthy), the year before to Sweden (Erik Axel Karlfeldt), year before that to the U. S. (Sinclair Lewis). This year for the first time it went to a man without a country...