Word: triumphal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Founder Flagler lived only one year after his triumphal entry into Key West. The bulk of his fortune was left to his wife, Mary Lily Flagler, who was a seamstress in a Newport mansion when Mr. Flagler met her while visiting her employers. Later she married Robert Worth Bingham, now U. S. Ambassador to Great Britain. To him she left $5,000,000, but again the bulk of the Flagler fortune went undivided into a trusteed estate. In her will, Mrs. Mary Lily Flagler Bingham made one provision which has kept lawyers guessing ever since. For 21 years the residuary...
...triumphal arches available for the restored King's entry into Athens had been bought by the Greek Republic last year when a visit was expected from Egypt's King Fuad who sent his regrets...
...with his meals. Untroubled by minor inconsistencies, he is a Mason, Greek Orthodox and divorced-all in good standing. Until last week he has been rather careful with his fortune of $100,000. Then at one clip Kingmaker Kondylis sent him $200,000 in advance expense money for his triumphal return to Athens, and at once there was trouble. Seemingly the Greek Dictator did not realize how English George II has become in all these years, making himself at home to the point of picking his teeth while standing around with Queen Mary and Scottish aristocrats...
After its capture Aduwa showed little evidence of fighting, none of bombing. The muddy streets were swept clean, festooned with flags and triumphal arches of branches. Just outside the town General de Bono changed from his automobile to the back of a skittish little Arab charger, rode through the streets and to the parade ground beyond the town. There he reviewed 11,000 of his men, dedicated the monument whose erection was the first move of the invading Italians...
...play a prominent role in celebrating the end of the rainy season, were repeatedly driven indoors by a violent tropical storm which raged around His Majesty with shrill tempest screeches until the ground was covered with three inches of water and pasteboard coronation emblems were washed from the Triumphal Arch...